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A baked cheese roll made with grated Cheshire and Gloucester cheeses, butter, eggs, and a boiled French roll.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ramakins

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the mixture

  1. Combine grated Cheshire cheese, Gloucester cheese, and butter in a mortar.

  2. Add egg yolks and the soft French roll, then mix until smooth.

  3. Fold in beaten egg whites gently.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour mixture into small paper pans that are longer than square.

  2. Bake in a Dutch oven at 350°F (175°C) until golden brown.

  3. Serve hot, optionally garnished with a wreath of curled parsley.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + creamtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,655 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + creamtop 24% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together42,166 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Egg and cream barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 42,166 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

Cheshire cheese
Melts into the base, adding rich savory flavor and body to the mixture.
Gloucester cheese
Adds further melting richness and savory depth to the cheese base.
Butter
Adds fat for a tender, rich texture and helps the mixture blend smooth.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help bind it into a smooth, cohesive custard-like base.
French roll
Soaked in cream until soft, it adds moisture and body to the mixture.
Egg whites
Whipped into the mixture, they trap air and help the roll rise and set light.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Egg whites hold air bubbles that give the roll its lift. Stirring vigorously deflates them, leaving a dense result instead of a light, risen one.

“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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