Name: Rice Waffles
Ingredients: 1 large coffee cup of well-boiled rice; 2 eggs; 1 tablespoon corn starch; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 quart milk; 1 tablespoon melted butter; self-raising flour (enough to make a thick batter) or 1 teaspoon cream of tartar and ½ teaspoon baking soda

Why it works: Rice and corn match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 933 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Waffles

Ingredients

1 large coffee cup of well-boiled rice
2 eggs
1 tablespoon corn starch
1 teaspoon salt
1 quart milk
1 tablespoon melted butter
self-raising flour (enough to make a thick batter) or 1 teaspoon cream of tartar and ½ teaspoon baking soda

Directions

Stir the boiled rice, eggs, corn starch, salt, milk, and melted butter together.
Add enough self-raising flour to create a thick batter. If using regular flour, mix in cream of tartar and baking soda.
Preheat and grease your waffle irons before cooking.

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.

Explore the science

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 + corntop 5% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together933 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together81,283 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).
Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together2,202 recipes

Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).
Corn + milktop 10% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together6,955 recipes

Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).