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Raised Waffles

A batter of milk, yeast, flour, eggs, and butter that rises overnight and is cooked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Raised Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Scald the milk, then add salt and butter.

  2. When lukewarm, dissolve the yeast cake in water and add it to the milk mixture along with the flour.

  3. Beat well and let rise overnight.

Finish and cook

  1. In the morning, add the beaten egg yolks and the stiffly beaten egg whites.

  2. Cook in a waffle iron as you would regular waffles.

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. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Butter + eggtop 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

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the waffle once the batter sets in the iron.
Yeast cake
Produces gas during the overnight rise, leavening the batter and giving it a light, airy texture.
Egg whites
Stiffly beaten whites add air and lift, making the waffles lighter and more open.
Egg yolks
Add richness and fat, contributing tenderness and flavour to the batter.
Milk
Supplies liquid that hydrates the flour and proteins, and adds richness and browning sugars.

The step that matters

Folding in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Whites hold air only while stiff; if they are deflated or overmixed, the batter loses lift and the waffles turn out dense rather than light and open.

“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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