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Rice Griddle Cakes

Rice griddle cakes are thin batter cakes made from milk, cooked rice, baking powder, salt, sugar, and flour, cooked on a griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine milk, rice, baking powder, salt, and sugar in a bowl.

  2. Add flour gradually until the mixture reaches a thin batter consistency.

  3. Heat a griddle over medium heat and pour batter to form large cakes.

  4. Cook until golden brown on both sides.

  5. Stack the cakes on a plate, butter each layer, and cut into wedges.

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. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Sugar + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  4. Rice + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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
Adds body and a tender, slightly chewy texture to the cakes.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking so the cakes rise and stay light.
Flour
Provides structure so the batter holds together as it cooks.
Milk
Moistens the batter and helps it brown on the griddle.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the cakes brown evenly.

The step that matters

Cooking the cakes on the griddle. Medium heat lets the centres set and the surface turn golden without scorching. Batter that is too thin spreads and tears, so check the consistency before pouring.

“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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