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Newport Breakfast-cakes

A quick breakfast cake made by mixing bread dough with eggs, butter, sugar, baking soda, and milk, then frying on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Newport Breakfast-cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In the morning, take 1 quart of dough from the bread.

  2. Separate the eggs and whip the yolks and whites to a light froth.

  3. Mix the whipped eggs into the dough.

  4. Gradually add 2 tablespoons of melted butter, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1 teaspoon of baking soda.

  5. Add enough warm milk to achieve a batter consistency similar to buckwheat cakes.

  6. Beat the mixture well and let it rise until breakfast time.

Cook the cakes

  1. Heat a griddle and grease it well.

  2. Pour small rounds of batter onto the griddle and cook until light 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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

  3. Bread + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Bread + eggtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together22,662 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Whipped whites and yolks add lift and a light, airy texture to the batter.
Baking soda
Leavens the batter, producing gas bubbles that help the cakes rise.
Melted butter
Adds fat, which tenderizes the cakes and adds richness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the cakes brown on the griddle.
Warm milk
Supplies moisture and thins the dough to a pourable batter consistency.

The step that matters

Greasing and heating the griddle. A hot, well-greased griddle keeps thin batter from sticking and lets the rounds brown evenly rather than tearing or scorching.

“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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