Name: Rice Griddle Cakes
Ingredients: 1½ pints cold boiled rice; 1 quart milk; 1 quart all-purpose flour; 2 large eggs; ½ teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; Stale bread crumbs (optional)

Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Soak the cold boiled rice in 1 pint of milk or water overnight.
The next morning, add 1 quart of milk to the rice.
Stir in 1 quart of flour until well combined.
In a separate bowl, beat the 2 eggs and add to the mixture.
Dissolve ½ teaspoon of baking soda in a little hot water and mix in.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and mix well.
If desired, mix in stale bread crumbs, using just enough flour to help the cakes turn easily on the griddle.

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.

Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together11,466 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).
Rice + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,259 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).
Egg + breadtop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together22,662 recipes

Shared aroma: (e)-2-octenal (fatty, green).
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

Brown Bread461 recipes

Rice Fritters84 recipes

White Bread80 recipes

Bread Omelette60 recipes

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Rice Griddle Cakes