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Rice Bread

A bread made by boiling rice, mixing with flour, salt, yeast, and water, then letting rise and baking.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Rice and flour are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 6,611 recipes. Both carry isobutyraldehyde, which smells malty, green. The science ↓

Rice Bread

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the rice in 1 quart of water until dry and soft.

  2. Mix the cooked rice into the flour.

  3. Add salt and yeast, then gradually add water to achieve a bread-like consistency.

Rise and bake

  1. Let the mixture rise until well risen.

  2. Bake in molds.

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Adds moisture and a soft, tender crumb to the bread.
Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the bread together.
Yeast
Produces gas that makes the dough rise and become airy.

The step that matters

Let the mixture rise until well risen. Yeast produces gas that leavens the dough. If the dough is not allowed to rise fully, the bread will bake up dense and heavy.

“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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