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Rice Loaves

A baked loaf made from boiled rice, eggs, butter, milk, and topped with cheese.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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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 Loaves

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Beat the rice smooth with a spoon.

  2. Add the melted butter and beaten eggs.

  3. Mix in enough milk to create a soft paste.

Shape and bake

  1. Form the mixture into small loaves with your hands.

  2. Place the loaves in a dripping pan and cover closely.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

  4. When half done, brush with beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with grated cheese.

  5. Continue baking until browned.

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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Butter + cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Milk + cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  5. Rice + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together942 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

Boiled rice
Forms the bulk and body of the loaves.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when baked.
Butter
Adds richness and moisture to the rice.
Milk
Softens the mixture into a pliable paste that holds its shape.
Grated cheese
Melts and browns on the surface during the final baking.

The step that matters

Brushing with beaten egg yolk and cheese at the halfway point. Adding the egg yolk and cheese partway through lets the surface brown evenly. Egg proteins set and brown with heat, and cheese melts and browns, so timing matters for an even golden finish without overbaking the loaves.

“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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