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Graham Griddle Cakes

A batter of graham and wheat flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, butter, and milk cooked on a griddle to make cakes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Graham Griddle Cakes

Why it works: Wheat and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Graham Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix the graham flour, wheat flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt, then sift the dry ingredients together.

  2. Add milk gradually to form a batter.

  3. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs and then add them to the batter.

  4. Melt the butter and mix it into the batter.

Cook

  1. Preheat a well-greased griddle or hot plate and pour batter to form cakes.

  2. Cook until golden 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.

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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. Wheat + milktop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

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

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

  3. Flour + wheattop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Wheat + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,002 recipes

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

Flour and butter barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add richness and structure to the cakes.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the cakes rise and turn light.
Graham flour
Provides the main body and the coarse, nutty texture of the cakes.
Wheat flour
Adds gluten-forming protein that gives the cakes structure and tenderness.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavour and a softer crumb.
Sugar or molasses
Adds sweetness and helps the cakes brown on the griddle.

The step that matters

Cook until golden brown on both sides. The griddle must be well greased and hot enough to set the batter quickly. Sugar in the batter browns easily, so too much heat burns the outside before the centre sets.

“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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