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Rice Bread

Rice bread is a loaf made from rice, wheat flour, yeast, salt, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and wheat match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 423 recipes. Both carry 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline, which smells popcorn, roasted. The science ↓

Rice Bread

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the dough

  1. Boil the rice in water until tender, then drain.

  2. While the rice is still warm, mix it with the flour, yeast, and salt.

  3. Add enough warm water to form a smooth dough.

  4. Let the dough rise in a warm place.

Shape and bake

  1. Shape the dough into loaves.

  2. Bake the loaves at 400°F (200°C) for 1 to 2 hours, depending on size.

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 + wheattop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together423 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  2. Wheat + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,373 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked rice adds moisture and a soft, tender crumb to the loaf.
Wheat flour
Flour proteins form the gluten network that gives the bread its structure.
Yeast
Yeast ferments sugars and produces gas, which makes the dough rise.

The step that matters

Let the dough rise in a warm place. Yeast works best in warmth. A cold spot makes the rise slow and weak, while overly hot conditions can kill the yeast, so the loaves may not expand properly.

“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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