Name: Cereal Batter Bread
Ingredients: 1 cup cold hominy; 1 cup cooked rice; 3 eggs, well beaten; 1 cup milk; Salt to taste; Pepper to taste; Butter for serving

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 ↓

Cereal Batter Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

Mash together the cold hominy and cooked rice in a bowl.
Add the well beaten eggs, milk, salt, and pepper. Mix until combined.

Bake and serve

Pour the mixture into a baking dish.
Bake until it reaches a pudding consistency.
Serve warm with generous slices of butter.

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.

Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,379 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together9,645 recipes

Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together118,967 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs: Bind the mixture and set it into a pudding-like texture as they cook.
Milk: Adds moisture and softens the mash so it bakes into a soft, custardy texture.
Cooked rice: Provides body and a soft, starchy base that holds the mixture together.
Cold hominy: Forms the main starchy base, adding bulk and a tender, mashed texture.

“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.