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Fried Bacon and Rice with Flapjack

A flapjack made with bacon, rice, flour, and a sweet batter, cooked in bacon grease.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Fried Bacon and Rice with Flapjack

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Bring ⅔ cup of water to a boil in a pot.

  2. Add 4 tablespoons of rice and boil for about 15 minutes until tender.

  3. Stir in 2 pinches of coarse sea salt.

  4. Drain the water and spread the rice on the lid of the pot.

Fry the bacon

  1. Fry 3 slices of bacon in the pot until slightly browned.

  2. Place the bacon on top of the rice.

Make and cook the flapjack

  1. In a bowl, mix 6 tablespoons of flour and ⅓ teaspoon of baking powder.

  2. Add enough cold water to create a batter that drips freely from a spoon.

  3. Stir in a pinch of salt and 2 pinches of sugar.

  4. Pour the batter into the pot with the bacon grease and cook over medium heat for 5 to 7 minutes.

  5. Carefully flip the flapjack and cook for another 5 to 7 minutes until done.

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. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 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
Cooked until tender and placed on the lid, it adds body and a soft, starchy bite.
Bacon
Its fat is used to cook the batter, adding savoury flavour and richness.
Flour
Forms the structure of the batter that sets as the flapjack cooks.
Baking powder
Releases gas as it heats, helping the flapjack rise and turn light.

The step that matters

Flipping the flapjack. The batter is thin and only partly set, so it can tear or break when flipped. Lifting it gently and letting the underside brown first helps it hold together.

“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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