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Corn Patties

Corn patties are fried cakes made from grated sweet corn mixed with eggs, flour, milk, and seasonings.

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 ↓

Corn Patties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Grate the corn and place it in a bowl.

  2. Beat the eggs, then add flour, salt, pepper, and milk slowly while mixing.

  3. Combine the egg mixture with the grated corn until well mixed.

Cook

  1. Heat a griddle or pan and add butter.

  2. Drop spoonfuls of the corn mixture onto the hot griddle.

  3. If using lard, mix it in to prevent burning.

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. Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,955 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  3. Corn + peppertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,324 recipes

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Corn + flourtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,165 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Sweet corn
Provides the main bulk and sweetness of the patties.
Eggs
Bind the grated corn together and help the patties set when cooked.
Flour
Absorbs moisture and helps the batter hold its shape.
Milk
Adds moisture and softens the batter for a tender texture.

The step that matters

Drop spoonfuls onto the hot griddle. Placing the batter on a properly heated surface helps the patties set quickly and brown evenly. A cool pan lets the moisture leak out, so the patties spread, stick, and turn pale and soggy.

“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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