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Waffles Without Yeast

A simple yeast-free waffle batter made with eggs, milk, butter, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Waffles Without Yeast

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Separate the yolks and whites of the eggs.

  2. Melt the butter and stir it into the lukewarm milk.

  3. Whisk the yolks until light, then add to the milk alternately with flour, beating well.

  4. Gently fold in the whipped egg whites without overmixing.

Bake and serve

  1. Grease and heat the waffle irons, fill them nearly full with batter, and close them.

  2. Turn the irons to bake the waffles on both sides.

  3. Remove the waffles when done and butter them.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

Eggs
Yolks enrich the batter and whites, folded in whipped, give the waffles a light, airy structure.
Milk
Provides the liquid that hydrates the flour and makes the batter pourable.
Flour
Forms the starch and gluten network that gives the waffles their body and structure.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and flavor, and helps the waffles brown and taste tender.

The step that matters

Gently fold in the whipped egg whites. Whipped egg whites trap air that leavens the batter. Overmixing deflates that foam, leaving denser, flatter waffles.

“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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