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Buckwheat Cakes

Buckwheat Cakes are a simple batter made from buckwheat flour, baking powder, water, and salt, cooked on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Buckwheat and flour work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 660 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Buckwheat Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. In a bowl, combine buckwheat flour, baking powder, and salt.

  2. Add enough water to create a thin batter and mix well.

Cook

  1. Preheat a griddle over medium-high heat.

  2. Pour batter onto the griddle and cook until bubbles form, then flip and cook until golden brown.

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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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. Buckwheat + flourtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together660 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Buckwheat flour
Forms the body of the cakes and gives them their nutty, earthy flavour.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the cakes rise and become light.

The step that matters

Flipping the cakes. Flip once bubbles form across the surface and the edges look set. Flipping too early tears the cake, and waiting too long can leave the centre raw or the crust overly dark.

“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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