Why it works: Cheese and ham work together. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 303 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓
Stuffed Rolls
Ingredients
Directions
Cut off the end of the roll and remove the inside.
Fill the roll with a mixture of cheese and minced ham or chicken.
Cover the top with the small piece cut off.
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.
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Cheese + hamtop 15% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together303 recipes
Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).
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