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Rice Waffles

Rice waffles are a batter of boiled rice, milk, eggs, salt, and flour baked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix the boiled rice with 1 cup of warmed milk.

  2. Stir in 1 cup of cold milk and the salt.

  3. Add the beaten eggs and enough flour to create a thick batter.

Cook

  1. Bake in a waffle iron until golden brown.

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

Milk and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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 starch to the batter, helping the waffles hold shape and crisp at the edges.
Milk
Provides moisture that hydrates the starches and keeps the waffles tender inside.
Eggs
Bind the batter and set as they heat, giving the waffles structure.
Flour
Thickens the batter and adds structure so the waffles keep their form.

The step that matters

Adding enough flour to make a thick batter. The batter must be thick enough to hold its shape and cook into a firm waffle. If it is too thin, it will spread and turn out soft and limp.

“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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