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Raised Muffins

A muffin made by adding butter, eggs, and sugar to raised dough after its second rise.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Raised Muffins

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Make the batter

  1. When your bread has passed its second rising, work in the melted butter.

  2. Then add the eggs and sugar, beaten together until very light.

Bake

  1. Bake in muffin rings for about 20 minutes.

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. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Egg + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Raised dough
Provides the yeast-risen structure and airy, bread-like crumb of the muffins.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, and help the muffins set as they bake.
Butter
Adds richness and tenderness, softening the crumb and carrying flavor.
White sugar
Sweetens the muffins and helps them brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Beating the eggs and sugar until very light. Beating incorporates air into the eggs, which gives the muffins lift and a lighter texture. Under-beaten eggs leave a denser result.

“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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