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German Waffles

A sweet batter of butter, eggs, milk, almonds, and flour baked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,673 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

German Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat the butter into a cream.

  2. Add the egg yolks and sugar, mixing until combined.

  3. Stir in the milk, ground almonds, almond flavoring, baking powder, and enough flour to achieve a stiff pancake batter consistency.

  4. Gently fold in the beaten egg whites.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a waffle iron and sprinkle with sugar before serving.

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. Almond + flourtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,673 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Butter + almondtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,245 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Butter
Creamed with the sugar-free base, it adds richness and a tender crumb.
Egg yolks
Add richness and help bind the batter.
Egg whites
Beaten and folded in, they trap air that lightens the waffles.
Flour
Provides structure so the batter holds its shape in the iron.
Baking powder
Releases gas during baking so the waffles rise and turn light.
Milk
Adds moisture and helps form a pourable, cohesive batter.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Egg whites hold air only while intact, so overmixing or stirring vigorously deflates them. Gentle folding keeps the batter light and helps the waffles rise evenly.

“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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