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Ground Rice Cutlets

A baked cutlet made from ground rice, egg, milk, cheese, and herbs, topped with breadcrumbs and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ground Rice Cutlets

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.

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the ground rice in the milk until thick.

  2. Add the beaten egg, nutmeg, herbs, grated cheese, and seasoning.

Assemble and bake

  1. Butter a flat baking dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

  2. Spread the mixture in the dish, top with more bread crumbs, and scatter bits of butter on top.

  3. Bake at 400°F (200°C) until golden brown.

Serve

  1. Cut into pieces and serve with vegetables and tomato sauce.

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  3. Cheese + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Cheese + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,962 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the milk into a firm base that holds its shape when cut.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set as it bakes.
Milk
Cooks with the ground rice to form a thick, moist custard-like base.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and flavor, and browns on the surface as it bakes.
Bread crumbs
Form a crisp, browned crust on the top and bottom.

The step that matters

Boil the ground rice in the milk until thick. Ground rice must be cooked fully in the liquid so its starch swells and thickens. If it is undercooked, the mixture stays loose and will not set firmly when baked.

Swap the nutmeg

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, egg, milk, cheese, bread, butter):

  1. Nutmegthe original
  2. Cinnamonfits about as well
  3. Parsleyfits less well
  4. Capersfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, egg, milk, cheese, bread, butter. 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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