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Pancake Rolls

A rolled pancake dish filled with strawberry marmalade and served with wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and strawberry are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,130 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pancake Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine eggs, sugar, nutmeg, and milk to make the batter.

Cook and fill

  1. Cook pancakes in a lightly greased skillet until golden brown.

  2. Place pancakes on a napkin and spread each with strawberry marmalade.

  3. Roll up the pancakes and trim off the ends.

  4. Keep rolled pancakes warm in a dish until all are prepared.

Serve

  1. Serve with wine sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + strawberrytop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,130 recipes

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

  2. Strawberry + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together217 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).

  3. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Nutmeg + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14,685 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Nutmeg + strawberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together163 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pancake batter and give the thin pancakes their structure.
Milk
Thins the batter so it spreads into thin, pliable pancakes.
White sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pancakes brown in the skillet.
Strawberry marmalade
Adds sweetness, fruit flavour and moisture inside the rolls.

The step that matters

Cook pancakes in a lightly greased skillet until golden brown. Sugar browns quickly, so heat that is too high can scorch the outside before the pancake sets through. Moderate heat and a light, even layer of grease let the batter set evenly and colour gently, keeping the pancakes pliable enough to roll without cracking.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, sugar, milk, strawberry, wine, sauce):

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegthe original
  3. Gingerfits about as well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, sugar, milk, strawberry, wine, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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