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Rice Waffles

Rice waffles are batter made with boiled rice, flour, milk, eggs, butter, and baking soda, then cooked in a waffle iron.

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 ↓

Rice Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine the boiled rice and flour.

  2. Add the sour milk, sweet milk, and baking soda; mix well.

  3. Beat the eggs and fold them into the mixture.

  4. Melt the butter and stir it in.

Cook and serve

  1. Preheat your waffle iron and pour in the batter.

  2. Cook until golden brown and serve hot.

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. 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. Rice + walnuttop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together430 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Flour + buttertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Flour + walnuttop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,873 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and butter 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

Boiled rice
Adds body and a tender, slightly chewy texture to the waffle.
Flour
Provides structure so the batter holds its shape while cooking.
Sour milk
Its acidity reacts with the baking soda to help the waffles rise.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acidic sour milk to produce gas that lightens the batter.
Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure and richness to the waffles.
Butter
Adds fat for richer flavor and a tender crumb.

The step that matters

Preheat your waffle iron and pour in the batter. Batter poured into an insufficiently hot iron cooks slowly and can stick or steam instead of browning. A properly heated iron sets the outside quickly, giving crisp golden edges and helping the waffle release cleanly.

Swap the walnut

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, flour, milk, egg, butter):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Milletfits about as well
  3. Peanutfits about as well
  4. Walnutthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, milk, egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“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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