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Rice Buns

Rice buns are baked buns made from ground rice, butter, sugar, egg, baking powder, and flavoring essence.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,645 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rice Buns

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a moderate oven”. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Make the mixture

  1. Beat the butter and sugar together until creamy.

  2. Add the beaten egg and stir in the ground rice.

  3. Partly fill greased patty pans with the mixture.

Bake and cool

  1. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) for 15 minutes.

  2. Let them cool before removing from the pans.

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 + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Forms the main structure and gives the buns a tender, slightly crumbly texture.
Castor sugar
Sweetens the buns and, creamed with butter, helps trap air for a lighter crumb.
Butter
Adds fat for richness, tenderness and flavor.
Egg
Binds the mixture together and adds richness and structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the oven so the buns rise.

The step that matters

Beat the butter and sugar until creamy. Creaming softens the butter and works air into it with the sugar. These air pockets help the buns rise and keep the crumb light, so under-beating can leave them dense.

“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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