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Roquefort & Walnut Rolls

Use your favourite cheese in these delicious rolls from Great British Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood

By bbcgoodfood · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Walnut and butter match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and 6,819 recipes mention both. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

The recipe

Makes 8
Prep30 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk, wheat, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Toast the walnuts in a dry pan over medium heat for 3 minutes, stirring often. Cool, then chop roughly.

  2. Put both flours and the yeast in a large bowl. Add enough lukewarm water to make a soft, slightly sticky dough.

  3. Knead for 5 minutes until smooth, then work in the butter until fully absorbed.

  4. Knead in the crumbled Roquefort, the chopped walnuts and about half of the beaten eggs. Cover and leave in a warm place for 30 minutes to rise.

  5. Divide the dough into 8 equal pieces and shape each into a roll. Place on a lined baking tray, cover and rest for 10 minutes.

  6. Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F). Brush the rolls with the remaining beaten egg.

  7. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes until golden and hollow-sounding when tapped underneath. Cool on a wire rack.

By bbcgoodfood. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Walnut + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together6,819 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  2. Bread + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together27,145 recipes

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

  3. Butter + roquefort cheesetop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together35 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Bread + eggtop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together22,584 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

  5. Flour + buttertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together122,858 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter share little aroma chemistry, yet 122,858 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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