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Rice Fritters

Rice fritters made with boiled rice, milk, cinnamon, lemon peel, sugar, butter, eggs, nutmeg, baked and fried.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Rice Fritters

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Rice Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in milk with cinnamon and lemon peel until done.

  2. Remove the lemon peel and cinnamon.

  3. Stir in butter.

  4. Add eggs and nutmeg, mixing well.

  5. Butter a baking dish.

  6. Spread the rice mixture in the dish.

  7. Let it cool.

Fry and serve

  1. Cut into desired shapes.

  2. Dip each piece in beaten egg.

  3. Fry in butter until golden brown.

  4. Serve with fine sugar sprinkled on top.

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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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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Lemon + nutmegtop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,318 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  4. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  5. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk and then set, it forms the firm body of the fritters.
Milk
Cooks the rice until tender and adds moisture and softness to the mixture.
Eggs
Bind the cooled rice mixture so it holds its shape when cut and fried.
Butter
Adds richness and, when frying, browns the outside of the fritters.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the fried exterior brown.

The step that matters

Let it cool before cutting. The cooked rice must set fully so the pieces hold their shape. Cutting or dipping it while still warm and soft risks the fritters breaking apart in the hot butter.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, cinnamon, sugar, butter, egg, nutmeg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raisinfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, cinnamon, sugar, butter, egg, nutmeg. 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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