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Muffins Baked on the Griddle

Muffins made by baking batter on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Muffins Baked on the Griddle

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Sift the flour and baking powder together.

  2. Add the salt.

  3. Beat the egg well and stir it into the mixture.

  4. Gradually add the milk and mix until smooth.

Cook

  1. Preheat a griddle over medium heat.

  2. Pour batter onto the griddle to form muffins.

  3. 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.

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. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure that holds the muffins together as they cook.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the muffins rise and become light.
Egg
Binds the batter and adds structure and richness to the muffins.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and gives the batter a smooth, pourable consistency.

The step that matters

Cook until golden brown on both sides. Medium heat lets the centre cook through before the outside browns too far. Browning comes from the Maillard reaction, so it needs steady heat and a dry surface on the batter to develop evenly.

“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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