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Flour Waffles, Raised

A batter of flour, milk, butter, eggs, salt, and yeast is risen, baked in larded waffle irons, and served with powdered sugar and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Flour Waffles, Raised

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Gradually stir warm milk into flour to make a thick batter, ensuring no lumps.

  2. Add melted butter, beaten eggs, salt, and yeast to the batter.

  3. Let the batter rise.

Cook the waffles

  1. Grease waffle irons with lard and heat them well.

  2. Fill the waffle irons with batter and bake over hot coals for 2-3 minutes.

  3. Turn the waffle irons over and bake until brown on both sides.

Serve

  1. Butter the waffles immediately after cooking and serve with powdered sugar and cinnamon.

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. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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
Forms the thick batter structure that the waffles set around as they cook.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the waffles hold together and brown.
Yeast
Produces gas as the batter rises, leavening the waffles so they are light.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and adds moisture and tenderness to the batter.
Melted butter
Adds fat for flavor and a tender crumb, and helps browning in the iron.

The step that matters

Let the batter rise. Yeast needs time to produce gas and leaven the batter; skipping or shortening the rise leaves the waffles dense and flat.

“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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