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Rice Cheesecakes

Rice cheesecakes are small cakes made from cooked rice, cheese, egg, and seasoning, then fried and served with vegetables and brown sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,962 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rice Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cakes

  1. Cook the rice in water until completely dry and soft.

  2. In a bowl, mix the beaten egg, seasoning, and cheese with the cooked rice.

  3. Form the mixture into small cakes.

  4. Roll the cakes in wheatmeal.

Fry and serve

  1. Fry the cakes in vegetable butter or butter until golden brown.

  2. Serve with vegetables and brown sauce.

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. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Rice + cheesetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together942 recipes

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

  4. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Nutmeg + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together24,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the cakes and gives them their body once cooked dry.
Egg
Binds the rice and cheese so the cakes hold their shape.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and flavour and helps bind the mixture.
Wheatmeal
Coats the outside so the cakes brown well when fried.

The step that matters

Cook the rice until completely dry. Rice that still holds excess water will make the mixture wet and loose, so the cakes may not bind or hold their shape when fried.

Swap the nutmeg

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

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Capersfits about as well
  3. Cinnamonfits about as well
  4. Parsleyfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, cheese, 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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