Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓
Rice Waffles
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Boil the rice in water until soft.
Preheat a waffle iron.
Make the batter
In a bowl, combine the cooked rice, eggs, butter, and milk to form a thick batter.
Beat the mixture until light and fluffy.
Bake
Pour the batter into the iron and bake until golden.
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.
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Butter + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together81,283 recipes
Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
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Rice + milktop 7% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together7,374 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
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Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together9,645 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Egg + milktop 18% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together88,785 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Forms the bulk of the batter, giving the waffles their body and a tender, starchy crumb.
- Eggs
- Bind the batter and add structure, helping the waffles hold together when cooked.
- Butter
- Adds fat for richness and a tender texture, and helps the waffles brown in the iron.
- Milk
- Adds moisture so the cooked rice blends into a pourable, spreadable batter.
The step that matters
Beating the batter until light and fluffy. Beating incorporates air into the batter, which helps the waffles rise and turn out lighter. Under-beating can leave them dense.
“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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