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Rice Griddle Cakes

A thin batter of rice, flour, egg whites, baked on a greased griddle, served in stacks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Vanilla and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,287 recipes. Both carry 4-methoxybenzaldehyde, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

Rice Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Boil the rice until very soft.

  2. Add flour, salt, whipped egg whites, and enough water to make a very thin batter.

  3. Just before using, stir in baking powder.

Cook and serve

  1. Heat a soapstone griddle or an iron griddle greased with meat suet.

  2. Pour the batter in small rings onto the griddle and bake slowly.

  3. Serve in stacks of three or more, without rolling.

  4. For sauce, dissolve saccharine in hot water and add vanilla essence, or serve with lemon juice.

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. Vanilla + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  2. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rice + vanillatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,352 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked until very soft, it breaks down into a smooth base that gives the pancakes their body.
Egg whites
Whipped air gives the thin batter lift and a light, tender structure as it sets.
All-purpose flour
Adds starch that helps the batter hold together and set on the griddle.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter, helping the pancakes rise and become lighter.

The step that matters

Pour the batter in small rings and bake slowly. The batter is very thin, so heat that is too high will brown the outside before the centre sets. Slow baking lets the pancakes cook through evenly and firm up enough to lift.

Swap the vanilla

The recipe marks vanilla as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour, egg, meat, sauce, lemon, cinnamon):

  1. Raisinfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Vanillathe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, egg, meat, sauce, lemon, cinnamon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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