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Risen Waffles

A batter of sweet milk, rice, flour, and eggs baked into waffles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 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 ↓

Risen Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the yeast mixture

  1. Combine warm sweet milk and melted butter in a bowl.

  2. Add coarse sea salt, sugar, and home-made yeast, then mix well.

  3. Let the mixture rise for tea or breakfast, depending on when you prepare it.

Make the batter

  1. In another bowl, mix cold boiled rice, white flour, cornmeal, beaten eggs, and enough milk to create a soft batter.

  2. Stir in melted butter, salt, and baking powder until smooth.

Bake

  1. Grease your waffle iron well before baking the 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.

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

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

  2. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

Home-made yeast
Ferments the batter so it rises and gains a light, airy texture.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness to the waffles.
White flour
Provides the main structure that holds the waffles together.
Cornmeal
Adds a slightly grainy texture and toasty flavor to the waffles.
Cold boiled rice
Adds body and tenderness to the batter, keeping the waffles moist.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping the waffles rise and lighten.

The step that matters

Let the yeast mixture rise fully. Yeast needs enough time and warmth to produce gas and develop flavor. Rising too briefly leaves the batter dense, while the leavening it provides is what gives the waffles their lightness.

“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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