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Waffles, Rice

A batter of rice, eggs, flour, and milk baked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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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 ↓

Waffles, Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Boil the rice until tender, then let it cool.

  2. In a bowl, beat the eggs well.

  3. Add the cooled rice, flour, and salt to the eggs.

  4. Stir in enough sweet milk to make a soft batter.

Bake and serve

  1. Grease the waffle irons with lard and preheat them.

  2. Fill the irons with batter and bake, turning once or twice until golden.

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

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

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Egg + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Flour and milk 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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness as they set in the irons.
Flour
Provides the starch and gluten framework that gives the waffles their body.
Rice
Adds a tender, slightly crisp texture and body to the batter.
Sweet milk
Adds moisture so the batter pours and bakes into a soft interior.

The step that matters

Stir in enough sweet milk to make a soft batter. Too little milk leaves a stiff batter that bakes dense and unevenly, while too much makes it thin and runny, so the waffles may stick or fail to set. Add it gradually and aim for a pourable consistency.

“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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