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Wheat Waffles

A batter of eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, salt, and flour baked in a waffle iron.

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

Wheat Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Separate the egg whites and yolks.

  2. Melt the butter and stir it into the yolks.

  3. Add the salt and milk to the yolk mixture, stirring well.

  4. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them into the mixture.

  5. Mix flour with baking powder, then beat it into the batter until just thin enough to pour.

Bake

  1. Bake in a waffle iron according to the manufacturer's instructions.

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

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

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Butter and flour 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

Eggs
Whipped whites add lift and airiness, while yolks enrich the batter and add structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas when heated, helping the waffles rise and turn light.
Flour
Provides starch and gluten that give the waffles body and structure as they set.
Milk
Adds moisture and thins the batter so it pours, while contributing to browning.
Butter
Adds fat for flavour and a tender texture.

The step that matters

Folding in the beaten egg whites. Stiff whites hold air that gives the waffles lift. Stirring them in vigorously knocks out that air and leaves the waffles dense, so fold gently until just combined.

“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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