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Strawberry Roll

A steamed roll made from a biscuit crust filled with mashed strawberries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Strawberry Roll

Ingredients

Directions

Make the dough

  1. Mix flour, sugar, and butter until crumbly to make a biscuit crust.

  2. Roll the dough into a sheet about 1/4 inch thick.

Fill and roll

  1. Spread mashed strawberries evenly over the dough.

  2. Roll the dough tightly and moisten the edges to seal.

Steam and serve

  1. Place the roll on a plate and steam over boiling water until cooked through.

  2. Serve with a sauce made from additional mashed strawberries mixed with butter and sugar or sweetened cream.

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. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

All-purpose flour
Forms the structure of the biscuit crust that holds the roll together.
Butter
Rubbed into the flour to add tenderness and richness to the crust.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the crust and sauce.
Strawberries
Provide the fruit filling and moisture for the roll.

The step that matters

Roll the dough tightly and moisten the edges to seal. A loose roll or unsealed edges let the filling leak out during steaming, so the roll can open up and lose its shape.

“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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