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Superior Rice Waffles

Rice waffles made with flour, eggs, boiled rice, baking soda, and buttermilk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Flour and buttermilk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,721 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Superior Rice Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine the flour, eggs, boiled rice, and baking soda.

  2. Add buttermilk gradually to make a smooth batter.

Bake

  1. Preheat the waffle iron and bake the batter quickly 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. Flour + buttermilktop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,721 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Flour + eggtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Egg + buttermilktop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,986 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Rice + buttermilktop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together118 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

Flour and egg barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 106,462 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

All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure of the batter as it sets.
Eggs
Bind the batter and help it set firm and structured when cooked.
Baking soda
Reacts with the acid in buttermilk to release gas and lighten the waffles.
Buttermilk
Adds acidity to activate the baking soda and gives a tender crumb.

The step that matters

Bake the batter quickly on a preheated iron. Baking soda starts releasing gas as soon as it meets the acid in buttermilk, so the batter should go onto a hot iron promptly to lift well. A hot surface also drives browning, giving the golden color and flavor the recipe calls for.

“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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