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Oatmeal Pancakes

A batter of flour, oatmeal, baking powder, salt, and cold water cooked into pancakes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and pork are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,187 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Oatmeal Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. In a bowl, mix together the flour, oatmeal, baking powder, and salt.

  2. Add enough cold water to form a thick batter.

Cook the pancakes

  1. Heat a frying pan and grease it with pork fat.

  2. Ensure the pan is well greased before cooking each batch.

  3. Pour some batter into the pan to form three separate cakes.

  4. Cook one side until done, then turn with a knife.

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. Flour + porktop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together11,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and pork barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 11,187 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

All-purpose flour
Provides the main starch structure that holds the pancakes together.
Oatmeal
Adds a chewy, hearty texture and nutty flavor to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas when heated, helping the pancakes rise and become lighter.

The step that matters

Grease the pan well before each batch. Oatmeal and flour batter sticks easily to a hot pan without enough fat, which can tear the cakes when turning. Greasing before each batch keeps a release layer between batter and pan.

“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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