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Hotel Watkins Waffles

A batter made from flour, baking powder, salt, butter, eggs, and sweet milk, baked in waffle irons.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 124,287 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Hotel Watkins Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Sift 2 teaspoons baking powder with 1 quart flour, add 1 teaspoon salt and a little sugar, and mix with enough sweet milk to make a thin batter.

  2. Beat 3 eggs separately and add.

  3. Add 2 tablespoons melted butter.

Bake

  1. Bake at once in hot waffle irons.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

635Calories
19 gProtein
18 gFat
96 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 4 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

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

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

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 + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Baking powder
Produces gas bubbles that lighten the batter and help the waffles rise.
Flour
Forms the structure that holds the waffle together as it cooks.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, and help bind the batter.
Melted butter
Adds fat for tenderness and flavor and helps keep the waffles from sticking.

The step that matters

Bake at once in hot waffle irons. Baking powder starts releasing gas as soon as it meets liquid, so the batter loses lift if it waits. Hot irons set the outside quickly, trapping the steam and gas so the waffle rises and crisps.

“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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