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Indian Waffles

A waffle made with Indian meal, butter, milk, eggs, flour, baking powder, salt, yeast, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Clarke, Mary Lamson. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Indian Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the first batter

  1. Combine one-half cup Indian meal, one tablespoonful butter, and two cups boiling milk.

  2. Beat smooth and set aside to cool.

Add the rest and bake

  1. When cool, add two eggs, one round cup of flour, one teaspoonful Star Crystal Baking Powder, and one-half teaspoonful salt.

  2. Bake as usual.

Make the yeast batter and cook

  1. Combine one pint milk, one and one-half pints flour, one egg, one teaspoonful salt, and one-quarter ounce compressed yeast dissolved in two tablespoonfuls tepid water, then beat all well together.

  2. Let rise, covered, for four hours.

  3. Cook as above.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

784Calories
27 gProtein
26 gFat
108 gCarbs

Counts 5 of 6 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot 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 Clarke, Mary Lamson. [from old catalog]. 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour 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

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the batter together.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add richness and structure as they set.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the batter rise before cooking.
Baking powder
Releases gas that lightens the batter during cooking.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps form a smooth, pourable batter.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and a richer flavor.

The step that matters

Let the yeast batter rise fully, covered, for four hours.. Yeast produces gas slowly as it ferments. A full rise lets the batter become light and airy, while a shortened rise leaves the waffles dense and heavy.

“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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