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Pancakes of Eice

Rice pancakes made by boiling rice, mixing with cream, eggs, salt, nutmeg, melted butter, flour, and frying in lard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Pancakes of Eice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Boil the rice in a small quantity of water until it becomes jelly-like.

  2. Let the rice cool, then mix in the cream, eggs, salt, nutmeg, and melted butter.

  3. Add flour until the mixture is stiff.

Cook

  1. Fry in a small amount of lard 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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Nutmeg + flourtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,623 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Cream + nutmegtop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,920 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

Butter and flour 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

Rice
Cooked into a jelly-like base that gives the pancakes body and a soft, tender texture.
Eggs
Bind the batter and set during frying, giving the pancakes structure.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture, softening the crumb of the pancakes.
Butter
Adds fat and flavour, and helps the pancakes brown in the pan.
Flour
Stiffens the batter so the pancakes hold their shape when fried.

The step that matters

Add flour until the mixture is stiff. Too little flour leaves the batter too loose to hold its shape in the pan, while too much makes the pancakes dense and tough. Stopping when the batter is stiff gives a sturdy but tender result.

“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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