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Muffins English Style

Muffins English Style are small, lightly sweetened baked goods made with flour, cerealine, baking powder, and light cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Muffins English Style

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

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

  2. Add the light cream and Cerealine, mixing into a smooth batter slightly thicker than pancake batter.

Cook the muffins

  1. Heat a griddle evenly.

  2. Grease the griddle.

  3. Place muffin rings on the griddle.

  4. Fill the rings half full with batter.

  5. When the batter rises to the top of the rings, gently turn them over with a cake turner.

  6. Cook until they are a nice buff color, not brown.

Finish and serve

  1. Split each muffin in half.

  2. Toast delicately.

  3. Butter well.

  4. Serve hot on a folded napkin.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  3. Flour + creamtop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetaldehyde (pungent, ethereal).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the muffin's crumb together.
Cerealine
Adds body and texture to the batter, giving the muffins a tender, grainy crumb.
Light cream
Adds moisture and richness, helping the batter turn smooth and tender.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, making the muffins rise and become light.
Sugar
Adds mild sweetness and helps the muffins brown lightly during cooking.

The step that matters

Cook until a nice buff color, not brown. Muffins cooked over high heat brown on the outside before the centre sets. Keeping the heat moderate lets the batter cook through evenly while staying pale and tender.

“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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