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Fried Dinner-rolls

Fried dinner rolls are raised bread dough rolls fried in butter and lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fried Dinner-rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the dough

  1. Take a piece of raised bread dough the size of a small loaf.

  2. Roll it out on a floured surface and spread 1 tablespoon of melted butter over it.

  3. Dissolve ¼ teaspoon of baking soda in 1 tablespoon of water and pour it over the dough.

  4. Work the mixture into the dough and roll it out to a sheet about ½ inch thick.

  5. Cut the dough into strips 3 inches long and 1 inch wide.

Rise

  1. Place the strips on buttered baking sheets, cover with a cloth, and let rise in a cool place until 1 hour before dinner.

  2. Then, place them by the fire to rise further.

Fry and serve

  1. In a frying pan, heat 1 tablespoon of cold butter and 1 tablespoon of lard until hot.

  2. Fry the rolls until browned on one side, then turn them to brown the other side.

  3. Brown the edges as well, adding more grease as needed.

  4. Serve warm instead of bread, especially with a meat dinner.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Raised bread dough
Provides the yeasted structure that rises and forms the soft, airy crumb of the roll.
Baking soda
Reacts with the dough to add extra lift and a tender texture.
Melted butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the dough feel tender and flavorful.
Lard
Conducts heat well in the pan, promoting even frying and browning of the surface.

The step that matters

Frying the rolls. The fat must be hot before the rolls go in, or they absorb grease and turn heavy. Turning them once and keeping the fat topped up helps the surface brown evenly without burning before the centre is cooked through.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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