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Flour Pancakes

Flour pancakes made with flour, milk, eggs, and salt, fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Flour Pancakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Combine 1 pint of flour with enough milk to create a thick batter.

  2. Beat 3 eggs and add them to the mixture.

  3. Mix until the batter is perfectly smooth.

  4. Add a pinch of salt.

Fry

  1. Fry in a frying pan until golden brown, following the frying directions from recipe No. 62.

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 + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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 starch and structure that sets the pancake as it cooks.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and forms the liquid batter that gives the pancakes moisture.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the pancakes hold together when fried.

The step that matters

Mix until the batter is perfectly smooth. Beating the flour fully into the milk and eggs hydrates the starch evenly, so no dry lumps remain and the batter cooks into a uniform texture.

“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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