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Cinnamon RolL

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and biscuit match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 312 recipes. Both carry nonanal, which smells fat, citrus. The science ↓

Cinnamon RolL

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a good biscuit dough and roll it thin.

  2. Cream the butter with the sugar.

  3. Spread the butter and sugar mixture on the dough.

  4. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

  5. Roll the dough and cut it into slices.

  6. Place the slices in a bread pan.

  7. Add enough water to make it juicy while cooking.

  8. Serve hot with sweet milk or 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. Cinnamon + biscuittop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together312 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  2. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Butter + cinnamontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,784 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Butter + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,009 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  5. Sugar + biscuittop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,874 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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 cinnamon

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

  1. Cinnamonthe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Nutmegfits less well
  4. Tarragonfits less well

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

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