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A fruit‑filled pancake made with flour, milk, egg, butter, and berries or cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Or Berries

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Sift together the flour, baking powder, and salt.

  2. Beat the egg.

  3. Add the melted butter and milk.

  4. Mix in the flour.

  5. Gently fold in the fruit, adding sugar if desired.

Cook and serve

  1. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto a griddle and cook until golden brown.

  2. Serve hot with butter and powdered sugar or hot sugar syrup.

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. Milk + buttertop 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 + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 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

Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the pancakes together as they cook.
Egg
Adds structure and richness, helping the batter bind and set when heated.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking, helping the pancakes rise and become light.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and adds moisture and tenderness to the batter.
Butter
Adds fat for flavor and tenderness, and helps the pancakes brown on the griddle.
Fruit
Adds moisture, sweetness, and flavor, and gives the pancakes their fruity character.

The step that matters

Fold in the fruit gently. Overmixing develops gluten in the flour, which makes the pancakes tough and dense. Folding keeps the batter light and avoids crushing the fruit into it.

“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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