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Cheese Rolls

Cheese rolls are oblong potato cakes coated in egg and cheese, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Pepper and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 34,122 recipes. Both carry 4'-methylacetophenone, which smells bitter almond. The science ↓

Cheese Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rolls

  1. Season the mashed potatoes with salt and pepper.

  2. Shape the seasoned potatoes into oblong forms.

  3. Dip each roll in the beaten egg.

  4. Roll the egg-coated rolls in the grated cheese.

Fry and serve

  1. Heat oil in a deep fryer or heavy pot.

  2. Fry the cheese rolls until golden brown.

  3. Remove and drain on paper towels.

  4. Sprinkle with parsley and serve hot.

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. Pepper + parsleytop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  2. Potato + parsleytop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,855 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,305 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + cheesetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together959 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  5. Pepper + cheesetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,861 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

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

What each ingredient does

Mashed potatoes
Form the soft interior that holds the rolls together and gives a creamy center.
Beaten egg
Acts as a binder so the cheese coating sticks to the potato rolls.
Grated cheese
Forms the outer coating that melts slightly and browns during frying.

The step that matters

Frying until golden brown. Oil that is too cool lets the rolls soak up grease and fall apart, while oil that is too hot browns the outside before the interior heats through. Holding the oil at a steady frying temperature gives a crisp coating and a hot center.

Swap the potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, pepper, cheese, parsley):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Carrotfits about as well
  3. Spinachfits about as well
  4. Potatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, pepper, cheese, parsley. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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