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Hominy Cakes

A simple batter of hominy grits, milk, and egg cooked on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Hominy Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Separate the egg.

  2. Add the yolk and milk to the grits and mix well.

  3. Beat the egg white to a stiff froth and stir it into the mixture.

Cook

  1. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto a hot griddle.

  2. Bake until brown on both sides.

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. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Egg
Egg white beaten to a stiff froth lightens the batter and helps the cakes rise and stay tender.
Cooked hominy grits
Provides the main body of the cakes, setting as they cook on the griddle.
Milk
Adds moisture so the batter is loose enough to drop from a spoon.

The step that matters

Beating the egg white to a stiff froth. Whites that are underbeaten will not hold air, so the batter stays dense. Overbeaten whites turn dry and grainy and deflate when folded in, so the froth should be stiff but still glossy.

“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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