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Bice Waffles

A waffle made with boiled rice, butter, flour, eggs, and milk.

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

Bice Waffles

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Boil the rice and let it cool.

  2. Mix the cooled rice with butter and salt.

  3. Sift in the flour.

  4. Beat the egg yolks and mix with milk.

  5. Add the beaten egg whites and stir gently.

Bake

  1. Bake immediately in a waffle iron.

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 + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Rice
Cooked rice adds body and a slightly chewy, tender texture to the batter.
Butter
Adds fat for richness, tenderness and golden browning in the waffle.
Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the waffle together as it bakes.
Eggs
Yolks enrich and bind the batter, while whipped whites lighten it and help it rise.
Milk
Supplies liquid that hydrates the flour and gives the batter its pourable consistency.

The step that matters

Add the beaten egg whites and stir gently. Whipped egg whites trap air that gives the waffles lift. Stirring gently keeps that air in the batter, so the waffles stay light instead of dense.

“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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