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Baked Rice Hash

A baked dish of cooked rice, beef, milk, egg, and butter, seasoned with salt and pepper.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter 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 ↓

Baked Rice Hash

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the hash

  1. Heat the milk in a saucepan until hot.

  2. Add the chopped beef, cooked rice, butter, salt, and pepper to the hot milk, then stir the mixture for 1 minute.

  3. Remove the mixture from heat.

  4. Incorporate the beaten egg into the mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Transfer the hash to a baking dish and bake at 400°F (200°C) for 20 minutes until very brown.

  2. Serve with gravy if available.

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. Milk + buttertop 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. Beef + peppertop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together18,971 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Beef + ricetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,265 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  5. Rice + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Binds the hash together and helps it set as it bakes.
Rice
Forms the bulk of the hash and gives it a soft, starchy body.
Milk
Adds moisture and creaminess that keeps the hash from drying out in the oven.
Beef
Provides the savory, meaty flavor and substance of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the surface brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Incorporating the beaten egg off the heat. Egg proteins set when heated, so adding it off the heat and mixing gently keeps it from scrambling in the hot milk and lets it bind the hash evenly before baking.

“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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