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Ground-Kice Pancakes

Pancakes made with rice flour and a little all-purpose flour, thickened with hot milk and fried in a pan.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Ground-Kice Pancakes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Heat 1 pint of milk until nearly boiling.

  2. Mix rice flour with ¼ cup cold milk, then stir into the hot milk until thickened.

  3. Pour into a bowl and add sugar, salt, and cinnamon.

  4. Once cool, stir in the all-purpose flour and beaten eggs.

Cook and serve

  1. Fry the batter in a pan until pancakes are lightly browned on both sides.

  2. Sift sugar over the pancakes before serving.

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  3. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Sugar + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together30,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and cinnamon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 30,779 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

Rice flour
Its starch thickens the hot milk into a smooth, set base for the batter.
All-purpose flour
Its gluten gives the pancakes structure so they hold together when cooked.
Eggs
They bind the batter and help the pancakes set, adding structure and richness.
Milk
It adds moisture, keeping the pancakes tender rather than dry.
Sugar
It adds sweetness and helps the pancake surfaces brown in the pan.

The step that matters

Cool the thickened mixture before adding the eggs. Beaten eggs added to a very hot mixture can start to cook and set in lumps, leaving the batter uneven and the pancakes less smooth.

“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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