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Newport Breakfast-cakes

Small griddle cakes made by enriching leftover bread dough with eggs, butter, sugar, soda and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter 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 ↓

Newport Breakfast-cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In the morning, take 1 quart of bread dough.

  2. Separate the eggs and whip the yolks and whites to a light froth.

  3. Mix the whipped eggs into the dough.

  4. Gradually add 2 tablespoons melted butter, 1 tablespoon sugar, and 1 teaspoon baking soda.

  5. Add enough warm milk to achieve a batter consistency similar to buckwheat cakes.

  6. Beat the mixture well and let it rise until breakfast time.

Cook the cakes

  1. Heat a greased griddle and pour on the batter in small round cakes.

  2. Cook until they are a light brown, similar to griddle cakes.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

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

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

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

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Bread dough
Provides the yeast-risen base that gives the cakes their light, airy structure.
Eggs
Whipped yolks and whites add lift and a tender, airy crumb.
Melted butter
Adds richness and moisture, softening the crumb and helping browning on the griddle.
Sugar
Adds mild sweetness and helps the cakes brown on the griddle.
Baking soda
Reacts with the dough's acidity to produce gas, adding further rise.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture well and let it rise until breakfast time. The batter must be fully combined and given time to rise; poor mixing leaves uneven pockets, while the yeast in the dough needs a long, warm rise to aerate the batter before cooking.

“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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