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Sour Milk Waffles

A waffle made with sour milk, flour, eggs, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and melted butter.

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 ↓

Sour Milk Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the eggs until light, then add the sour milk.

  2. Sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

  3. Beat the yolks and whites separately.

Make the batter

  1. Add the dry ingredients to the milk and eggs, along with the melted butter.

  2. Fold the whites in last.

Bake

  1. Bake on a well-greased 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 + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 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

Eggs
Add structure and richness, and the whipped whites lift the batter.
Sour milk
Adds moisture and acidity that reacts with the leavening.
Flour
Provides the structure that sets the waffle as it cooks.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acid in sour milk to produce gas for rising.
Baking powder
Supplies additional gas for rising and a lighter crumb.
Melted butter
Adds fat for tenderness and helps browning in the iron.

The step that matters

Fold the whites in last. Beaten egg whites hold air that gives the waffles lift. Overmixing after folding them in knocks that air out, leaving dense, flat waffles.

“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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