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Ypsilanti Egg Rolls

A rolled omelet made with eggs, milk, flour, and butter, served hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Ypsilanti Egg Rolls

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Beat the egg whites and yolks separately.

  2. Combine the milk and flour, then add the beaten eggs.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a well-greased frying pan over medium heat.

  2. Pour a small amount of the mixture into the pan and cook until set.

  3. Roll the egg mixture like an omelet and place on a platter.

  4. Serve hot, optionally with sugar.

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. Flour + buttertop 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).

Flour and butter 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
Provide structure and richness; the whites and yolks set into the thin, sliceable roll.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, thinning the egg mixture so it spreads into a thin sheet.
Flour
Thickens the batter slightly, helping the thin egg layer hold together when rolled.

The step that matters

Cook and set each thin layer over medium heat. Heat that is too high browns or toughens the egg before it sets, while too low leaves it wet. A small amount of batter in a well-greased pan gives a thin, even sheet that can be rolled without tearing.

“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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