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Delicious Rick Waffles

A waffle batter made with sweet milk, boiled rice, wheat flour, yeast, salt, and eggs, baked until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and wheat are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,418 recipes. Both carry (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal, which smells cucumber, melon. The science ↓

Delicious Rick Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Warm the milk in a pot.

  2. Stir in the boiled rice and wheat flour.

  3. Add the homemade yeast, distillery yeast, and coarse sea salt.

  4. Set the mixture in a warm place to rise until 6 o'clock.

Bake

  1. When ready to cook, beat in the eggs.

  2. Bake the batter in a waffle iron 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. Milk + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

  2. Rice + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

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

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

  4. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Boiled rice
Adds body and a tender, slightly chewy crumb to the waffles.
Homemade yeast
Ferments the batter so it rises and becomes airy.
Distillery yeast
Speeds up fermentation, helping the batter rise.
Eggs
Add structure and richness, helping the waffles hold together.
Wheat flour
Provides starch and gluten for structure in the batter.

The step that matters

Letting the batter rise. Yeast needs a warm, sufficient rise time to produce gas and an airy texture. Under-proofed batter gives dense waffles, while over-proofed batter can turn sour and collapse.

“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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