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Matzos Meal Griddle Cakes

A simple griddle cake made from matzo meal, eggs, milk or water, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 18% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 88,785 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Matzos Meal Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix Matzo meal, salt, and sugar in a bowl.

  2. Beat the yolks of the eggs and add the milk or water, then combine with the dry ingredients.

  3. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites gently.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a griddle and grease it with your choice of fat.

  2. Pour batter onto the griddle using a large spoon.

  3. Cook until bubbles form and the bottom is brown, then flip with a broad knife to brown the other side.

  4. Serve with sugar or sugar syrup.

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. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Eggs
Yolks enrich the batter, and whipped whites add lift and a light, airy texture.
Matzo meal
Provides the starchy base that forms the body of the pancakes.
Milk or water
Hydrates the matzo meal and loosens the batter to a pourable consistency.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the pancake surface brown on the griddle.

The step that matters

Fold in the egg whites gently. Whipped egg whites trap air that gives the pancakes lift. Stirring vigorously deflates the foam, leaving dense, flat pancakes.

“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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