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Raised Waffles

A yeast‑raised waffle batter made with milk, water, salt, flour, butter, egg yolks, egg whites, and yeast cake.

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, add the dissolved yeast cake and flour. Beat well.

  3. Let the mixture rise overnight.

Finish and cook

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

  2. Cook in a waffle iron.

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. 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. 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).

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

Yeast cake
Produces gas during the overnight rise, leavening the batter so the waffles become light and airy.
Egg whites
Stiffly beaten whites add air to the batter, lightening its texture and helping the waffles rise.
Egg yolks
Add richness and fat, tenderising the crumb and aiding browning in the waffle iron.
Flour
Forms the gluten structure that traps gas and gives the waffles their body.
Milk
Adds moisture and milk solids that help the waffles brown and taste richer.

The step that matters

Adding the stiffly beaten egg whites. Folding in whites gently keeps the air they hold. Overbeating or deflating them makes the waffles denser and less light, since the batter's rise depends on trapped air and gas.

“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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