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Rich Waffles

A sweet, alcoholic waffle made with flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, brandy or rum, milk, baking powder, butter, and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Rich Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix flour, powdered sugar, eggs, essence, brandy or rum, and enough milk to make a thin paste.

  2. Warm the waffle mold.

  3. Butter both sides of the waffle mold.

  4. Pour paste into the mold.

Cook

  1. Close the mold gently.

  2. Place the mold over the fire.

  3. Turn the mold to heat both sides evenly.

Serve

  1. Dust the finished waffles with sugar.

  2. Serve warm or cold.

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. Vanilla + milktop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Vanilla + brandytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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
Forms the structure that holds the waffle together as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the batter and set during cooking to give the waffles structure and richness.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping the waffles rise and turn light.
Milk
Provides the liquid that turns the mixture into a thin paste.
Melted butter
Adds fat that helps browning and gives a rich flavor and crisp edges.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the waffles brown on the surface.

The step that matters

Turn the mold to heat both sides evenly. Heat reaches the batter from both faces of the mold, so turning it keeps cooking even. Leaving it on one side can scorch that face while the batter inside stays raw.

“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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