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Graham Muffins

A quick baked muffin made with graham flour, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, salt, and baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Graham Muffins

Why it works: Butter and milk 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 ↓

Graham Muffins

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare the batter

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. In a bowl, mix graham flour, salt, sugar, and baking powder.

  3. Add milk and melted butter (if using) to the dry ingredients and stir until combined.

  4. If using, fold in the beaten eggs.

Fill, rise and bake

  1. Fill muffin pans two-thirds full with the batter.

  2. Let the muffins rise until even with the top of the pans, about 1 hour.

  3. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes.

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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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. Butter + milktop 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. Flour + milktop 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. Flour + eggtop 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

Graham flour
Forms the structure of the muffins and gives them a nutty, wholesome flavour and texture.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the muffins hold their shape as they set.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and dissolves the sugar, forming the batter and adding moisture.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, causing the muffins to rise and become light.
Butter
Adds fat for tenderness and flavour, keeping the crumb moist.

The step that matters

Let the muffins rise until even with the top of the pans. Baking powder needs time to release gas and lift the batter before the oven sets it. Stopping the rise early leaves dense muffins, while the structure needs enough time to set around the expanding 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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