Why use both milk and cream in a waffle recipe?
I live in Europe and use a lot of European recipes. Here, traditional waffle recipes generally use a mixture of cream and milk as the liquid. The recipes include melted butter, so I don't understand what the cream is doing. Any ideas?
Bocuse recipe for waffles (as an example) (found in Paul Bocuse "Die Neue Küche" Heyne Kochbücher 1976) - but representative of a great many traditional European recipes for dessert waffles.
- 500 g flour
- a pinch of baking powder
- a pinch of salt
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 250 ml milk
- 750 ml heavy cream
- 8 egg yolks
- 100 ml rum
- 300 g melted butter
- 4 egg whites
Is there a technical or chemical reason to use cream, even if you are already using butter?
Best Answer
I can't say with absolute positivity on this, but I suspect it's because butter in Europe is often cultured, i.e. made using partially fermented cream, which changes its flavor and makes it a bit acidic. Cream is not cultured, so it has a 'neutral' flavor, the ratio of butter to cream is balanced to give the right flavor profile.
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