Name: Potato Rolls
Ingredients: Potato dough (prepared from mashed potatoes); Meat (cooked and seasoned); 2 eggs; Finely made white bread crumbs; Boiling fat for frying

Why it works: Egg and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 22,662 recipes. Both carry (e)-2-octenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Potato Rolls

Ingredients

Potato dough (prepared from mashed potatoes)
Meat (cooked and seasoned)
2 eggs
Finely made white bread crumbs
Boiling fat for frying

Directions

Roll out the potato dough to about ½ inch thick.
Cut into 4-inch squares.
Place a portion of meat in the center of each square.
Wet the edges with beaten egg and fold over to form a roll.
Cut the edges and press them firmly together, keeping the roll compact.
Beat one egg and the white of the other together.
Brush the rolls with the egg mixture and roll them in bread crumbs.
Heat a stewpan with boiling fat until it begins to smoke.
Fry the rolls until they are a nice brown.

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.

Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
Potato + meattop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together786 recipes

Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).
Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,924 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
Potato + breadtop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together434 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Meat + eggtop 22% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,432 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).