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Griddlecakes and Waffles

A batter of flour, baking powder, salt, butter, milk, and egg cooked on a griddle or waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Griddlecakes and Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

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

  2. In a separate bowl, beat the egg and add the milk and melted butter.

  3. Combine the wet and dry ingredients until just mixed.

Cook

  1. Drop spoonfuls of the mixture onto a hot, greased griddle.

  2. Cook until puffed and full of bubbles, then flip and cook until golden brown.

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. Butter + milktop 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 + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 starch and structure that hold the waffle together as it cooks.
Baking powder
Releases gas as it reacts with the liquid and heat, making the batter rise and puff.
Egg
Adds structure and richness, helping the batter set as it cooks.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and gives the batter its loose, pourable texture.
Melted butter
Adds fat for tenderness and flavor, and helps the surface brown.

The step that matters

Combine the wet and dry ingredients until just mixed. Overmixing develops gluten in the flour, which makes the waffles tough and chewy. Stir only until no dry flour streaks remain; small lumps are fine.

“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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