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Hominy Waffles

A waffle batter made with hot hominy, flour, butter, eggs, milk, and leavening, cooked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Hominy Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the hominy

  1. In a bowl, combine hot hominy and butter.

  2. Let the mixture cool.

Make the batter

  1. Add flour, salt, and enough milk to create a stiff batter.

  2. Incorporate the beaten eggs.

  3. Mix in baking soda and cream of tartar or baking powder.

Cook

  1. Cook in a waffle iron 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.

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. Flour + milktop 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

Hominy
Adds body and a tender, starchy texture to the batter.
Flour
Provides the structure that holds the waffle together as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness as they set.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and helps the waffle brown in the iron.
Milk
Adds moisture and loosens the flour into a workable batter.

The step that matters

Let the hominy mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs cooked by heat can scramble when they meet a hot mixture. Cooling the hominy and butter first lets the beaten eggs blend smoothly into an even batter that sets evenly in the iron.

“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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