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Ground Rice Omelet

An omelet made with ground rice, cinnamon, milk, eggs, and sugar, fried in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Ground Rice Omelet

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the cinnamon with the milk.

  2. Stir in the ground rice mixed with cold milk while boiling.

  3. Simmer gently for 15 minutes, stirring briskly.

  4. Remove the cinnamon and let the mixture cool.

Make and fry the omelet

  1. Add the beaten eggs and sugar, then beat the mixture for 5-6 minutes.

  2. Divide the mixture into three parts.

  3. Fry each part in a walnut-sized piece of butter until browned, about 5-6 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.

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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. Cinnamon + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  4. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Cinnamon + sugartop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Cinnamon and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Ground rice
Thickens the milk into a stiff custard-like base that holds the omelet together.
Eggs
Set when heated, giving the omelet its structure and a tender, custardy body.
Milk
Adds moisture and softness, cooking with the rice into a smooth, creamy mixture.
Butter
Fat for frying that browns the surface and adds rich flavor.
Sugar
Adds sweetness that balances the cinnamon and milk.

The step that matters

Simmer the rice mixture gently while stirring. Ground rice thickens as its starch swells in hot liquid. If the mixture is not stirred, it can scorch on the bottom or form lumps, and it must be cooled before the eggs are added so they do not scramble.

“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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