Skip to main content
Baking

Rice Waffles

Rice waffles are batter made from rice, flour, eggs, milk, butter, baking powder, and salt, cooked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

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 ↓

Rice Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Mash the rice until fine.

  2. Add the melted butter to the rice.

  3. Mix in the flour, baking powder, salt, and milk.

  4. Add the beaten eggs to the mixture.

  5. Beat the mixture until well combined.

Cook the waffles

  1. Preheat the waffle iron.

  2. Grease the waffle iron with butter.

  3. Fill the waffle iron three-quarters full with the batter.

  4. Cook until the first side is well browned before turning.

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. 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. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

Eggs
Bind the batter and add structure as they set in the iron.
Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the waffle together.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the waffles rise and lighten.
Butter
Adds richness and helps the waffle brown and release from the iron.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and loosens the batter to a pourable consistency.

The step that matters

Cook until the first side is well browned before turning. Turning too early tears the waffle, because the set crust has not yet formed enough to hold its shape. Letting the first side brown fully builds a firm surface that lifts cleanly and gives a crisp exterior.

“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.

More rice waffles recipes

German 6 See all 92 →

You might also like

Delicate CakeDelicate Cake246 recipesBoiled FrostingBoiled Frosting69 recipesCitron CakeCitron Cake68 recipesScotch CakeScotch Cake63 recipes