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Fried Bacon and Flapjack

A batter made with flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and water, cooked over bacon grease with cooked rice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 92,116 recipes. Both carry phenylacetaldehyde, which smells hawthorne, honey. The science ↓

Fried Bacon and Flapjack

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Bring ⅔ cup of water to a boil.

  2. Add 4 tablespoons of rice and boil until tender, about 15 minutes.

  3. Add ¼ teaspoon of coarse sea salt, stir, then drain the water and place the rice on a lid.

Make the batter

  1. Fry 3 slices of bacon in a pan until slightly browned, leaving some grease in the pan.

  2. In a bowl, mix 6 tablespoons of flour and 1 teaspoon of baking powder.

  3. Add enough cold water to make a batter that drips freely from a spoon.

  4. Stir in ¼ teaspoon of salt and 2 pinches of sugar.

Bake

  1. Pour the batter into the pan with the bacon grease.

  2. Bake over medium hot coals for 5 to 7 minutes until it slips easily in the pan.

  3. Quickly flip the flapjack and bake for another 5 to 7 minutes until done.

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.

  1. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Flour
Forms the main structure of the batter once it is mixed with water.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the flapjack rises and becomes light.
Bacon
Its fat gives the pan a greasy coating and adds savory flavor to the flapjack.
Rice
Cooked rice adds bulk and a soft texture to the batter.

The step that matters

Flipping the flapjack. The flapjack must be set enough to slip easily from the pan before flipping. Flipping too early can tear or break it, and the quick flip keeps heat from escaping and the batter from cooling.

“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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