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Graham Pancakes

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Why it works: Milk and wheat 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 Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wholesome and most palatable pancakes may be made as follows : Using one-half wheat flour and one-half Graham, mix with sour, or but- termilk and soda (small teaspoonful of soda to one quart of milk) ; add a pinch of salt, and, if desired, one tgg ; have the batter a little thinner than when wheat flour is used alone ; bake immediately on a hot griddle.

  2. JACKEY CAKES. Six tablespoonfuls of white Indian meal, pinch of salt, half teacup of milk; thoroughly scald with boiling water, add milk, and drop from tablespoon into boiling hot lard or drippings in frying-pan or spider ; fry a dark brown on both sides. When done, open and insert a bit of butter and then eat.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

604Calories
21 gProtein
9 gFat
107 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 4 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Wheatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed. 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. See the original page.

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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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

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

  2. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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