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Rick Waffles

A waffle made with flour, boiled rice, buttermilk, eggs, baking soda, salt, and lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and buttermilk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,721 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Rick Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Melt the lard and mix it well with the rice.

  2. Add the buttermilk and the whipped eggs.

  3. Gradually add the flour, mixing gently to keep the batter light.

Cook the waffles

  1. Preheat the waffle iron and grease it well.

  2. Pour the batter into the waffle iron and cook until golden brown.

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. Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Buttermilk + eggtop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,986 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Rice + buttermilktop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

Flour
Provides the structure that holds the waffle together as it cooks.
Cold boiled rice
Adds body and a tender, slightly chewy texture to the batter.
Sour or buttermilk
Adds moisture and acidity, which reacts with the baking soda to help the waffles rise.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add richness and lift when whipped.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic buttermilk to release gas, helping the waffles rise.
Lard
Adds fat for tenderness and helps the waffles brown in the iron.

The step that matters

Gradually add the flour, mixing gently. Overmixing once flour is added develops gluten, which makes waffles tough and dense. Mixing gently and adding flour in stages keeps the batter light and tender.

“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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