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Rice Griddle Cakes

A griddle cake made from rice, milk, yeast, eggs, and flour, cooked until golden brown.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk 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

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in water until nearly absorbed.

  2. Add the milk and cook until the rice is very soft.

Make the batter

  1. Let the mixture cool, then add the soaked yeast, eggs, sugar, salt, and flavoring.

  2. Stir in enough flour to make a suitable batter.

  3. Let the batter rise until very light.

Cook

  1. Cook on a soapstone griddle until golden brown.

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 + milktop 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. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, 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
Cooks down into a soft base that gives the pancakes body and a tender crumb.
Dry yeast
Ferments the batter so it rises and becomes light and airy before cooking.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the batter set and hold together while cooking.
Flour
Adds structure, thickening the batter so it holds its shape when cooked.
Milk
Softens the rice and adds moisture and richness to the batter.

The step that matters

Let the batter rise until very light. Yeast needs time and warmth to produce gas. An under-risen batter gives dense pancakes, while the rise builds the airy texture the dish depends on.

“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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