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Vegetable and Cheese Rolls

Spinach and cheese rolls are baked vegetable rolls with cheese and breadcrumbs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Vegetable and Cheese Rolls

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the spinach

  1. Cook the spinach in water for 10 minutes.

  2. Drain the water.

  3. Add the butter to the spinach and cook until tender.

  4. Chop the spinach.

Form and cook

  1. Mix in the grated cheese and enough bread crumbs to form a stiff mixture.

  2. Shape into a roll or leave moist.

  3. Cook in a baking dish.

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.

Explore the science

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 + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

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

  4. Spinach + breadtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Spinach + cheesetop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together630 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Spinach
Forms the bulk of the dish and gives its green flavour and moisture.
Butter
Adds fat and richness, helping the spinach turn tender and taste rounded.
Grated cheese
Binds the mixture and adds savoury flavour and richness when melted.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture and help the mixture hold together in a stiff shape.

The step that matters

Enough bread crumbs to form a stiff mixture. Spinach releases water as it cooks and is chopped, so too little bread crumbs leaves the mixture wet and unable to hold a shape. Adding crumbs gradually until the mix is firm lets them absorb that moisture before shaping and baking.

Swap the spinach

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

  1. Tomatofits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Onionfits better
  4. Spinachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, cheese, bread. 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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