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Rice Bread

A baked loaf made from cooked rice mixed with flour, milk, water, sugar, salt, and baking powder.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 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 Bread

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in 1 pint of water with a pinch of salt until the water is absorbed.

  2. Add the milk to the cooked rice and let it cool.

Mix and bake

  1. Sift together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.

  2. Mix the dry ingredients into the rice mixture until smooth.

  3. Pour the batter into a greased loaf pan.

  4. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 40 minutes, covering with paper for the last 15 minutes.

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.

  1. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + sugartop 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. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

Flour and milk 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
Cooked rice adds body and moisture, giving the loaf a tender, soft crumb.
Flour
Flour provides the structure that holds the loaf together as it bakes.
Baking powder
Releases gas when heated, helping the batter rise in the oven.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, and helps browning on the crust.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the crust brown during baking.

The step that matters

Let the rice cool before mixing. Adding dry ingredients to hot rice can cause the baking powder to release gas too early, weakening the rise. Cooling the rice first keeps the batter workable and helps the loaf rise evenly in the oven.

“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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