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Corn Pancakes

A batter of grated corn, egg, milk, salt, bread crumbs, and flour is fried into golden pancakes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Corn Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Grate the corn on a coarse grater and scrape any remaining pulp from the cob.

  2. In a bowl, combine the grated corn with the beaten egg and milk.

  3. Add salt and bread crumbs, then mix in flour until the batter is the consistency of griddle cake batter.

Fry

  1. Heat a well-buttered griddle over medium-high heat and fry the pancakes until golden brown on both sides.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  4. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Corn
Provides the main body and sweet corn flavor of the pancakes.
Egg
Binds the batter so the pancakes hold together while frying.
Flour
Adds structure, thickening the batter to a griddle cake consistency.
Bread crumbs
Absorb moisture from the grated corn and help give the batter body.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, and helps the batter brown through milk sugars.

The step that matters

Frying on a well-buttered griddle over medium-high heat. Milk sugars and proteins brown quickly, so the pancakes can scorch on the outside before the centre sets if the heat is too high or the butter is too thin. Even, moderate heat lets the inside cook through while the surface turns golden.

“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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