Skip to main content
Main

Flour and Indian Waffles

A batter of flour, Indian meal, baking soda, salt, butter, eggs, and sour milk baked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Flour and Indian Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Mix the salt and baking soda with the flour and Indian meal.

  2. Cream the butter in a separate bowl.

  3. Beat the eggs.

  4. Make a hollow in the middle of the flour mixture.

  5. Pour the beaten eggs and sour milk into the hollow.

  6. Stir until smooth.

Bake

  1. Heat the waffle irons.

  2. Butter them well.

  3. Fill them three-quarters full.

  4. Bake over a clear and steady fire until evenly browned.

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. Flour + buttertop 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).

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

Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the waffle together as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness as they set in the heat.
Sour milk
Adds moisture and acidity, which reacts with the baking soda to help the waffles rise.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic sour milk to produce gas that lightens the batter.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the waffles brown and release from the irons.

The step that matters

Bake over a clear and steady fire until evenly browned. Steady, moderate heat lets the batter set through the middle while the outside browns. Too hot a fire scorches the surface before the interior cooks, and uneven heat leaves pale and dark patches.

“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.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes