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Nice Sandwich Rolls

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Nice Sandwich Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In the evening, make a stiff potato sponge.

  2. In the morning, mix in enough flour to form a soft dough.

  3. Knead the dough well and let it rise until light.

  4. Knead down again, repeating this process two or three times.

  5. Mold into loaves and place in a dripping pan to rise.

  6. Bake carefully for a light brown crust.

  7. After baking, roll the loaves in a damp cloth and let cool for 3-4 hours.

  8. Cut the loaves lengthwise, avoiding the outside piece.

  9. Spread the inside with butter and cut into slices no thicker than ¼ inch.

  10. Layer cold, boiled ham on each slice and roll up carefully.

  11. Serve on an oblong platter, stacked in a pyramid style.

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. Potato + buttertop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Potato + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,355 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Butter + hamtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,475 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-decenal (waxy, orange).

  5. Potato + hamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together127 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (flour, butter, ham):

  1. Shallotfits better
  2. Leekfits better
  3. Chivefits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against flour, butter, ham. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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