Name: Rice Griddle Cakes
Ingredients: 1 large cup whole rice; milk; rice flour or cornmeal; 2-3 eggs; ¼ teaspoon salt

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 Griddle Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

Boil the rice in milk until soft.
While hot, stir in a little rice flour or cornmeal.
Let the mixture cool.
Add the eggs and salt, mixing well.

Cook

Bake small, thin cakes on a griddle.

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.

Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together7,374 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together88,785 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together8,350 recipes

Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole rice: Softens in milk to form the bulk of the batter, giving body and a tender crumb.
Milk: Cooks the rice until soft and adds moisture and richness to the batter.
Rice flour or cornmeal: Thickens the hot rice mixture, helping it hold together as a batter.
Eggs: Bind the batter and add structure so the cakes hold their shape on the griddle.

“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.