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Corn Rice Bread

A thin batter bread made with eggs, cornmeal, boiled rice, baking powder, milk, and butter, baked until firm.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Corn Rice Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the batter

  1. Beat the eggs until very light.

  2. Add the cornmeal, cold boiled rice, and baking powder.

  3. Mix in enough milk to create a very thin batter. Stir in the melted butter.

Bake and serve

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until firm.

  2. Serve with a spoon as soon as done.

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.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Provide structure and set the bread as they cook, while adding richness.
White cornmeal
Forms the main body of the bread and gives it a coarse, crumbly texture.
Cold boiled rice
Adds bulk and a soft, tender crumb to the batter.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the bread rises and lightens in the oven.
Melted butter
Adds fat for moisture and a tender texture, and flavour.

The step that matters

Mix in enough milk to create a very thin batter. The batter must be thin enough to pour and spread, since the cornmeal and rice absorb liquid and thicken as they stand. Too thick a batter bakes dense and unevenly, while the baking powder needs to be mixed in promptly so its gas is not lost before baking.

“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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