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Rice Griddle-cakes

Rice griddle cakes are batter cakes made with boiled rice, flour, milk, and eggs, cooked on a hot griddle.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Rice Griddle-cakes

Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Griddle-cakes

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Sift together the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder.

  2. Add the cold boiled rice, ensuring there are no lumps.

  3. Dilute the rice mixture with the beaten egg and milk, mixing into a smooth batter.

Cook and serve

  1. Preheat the griddle until hot.

  2. Pour batter onto the griddle to form large cakes.

  3. Cook until nicely browned on both sides.

  4. Serve with maple syrup.

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

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

  2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  3. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Rice + flourtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,611 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 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

Cold boiled rice
Adds body and a tender, slightly chewy texture to the cakes.
All-purpose flour
Provides the main structure that holds the batter together as it cooks.
Egg
Binds the batter and adds richness and structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking so the cakes rise and turn light.
Milk
Hydrates the flour and rice into a pourable batter and aids browning.

The step that matters

Cook until nicely browned on both sides. The griddle must be hot before the batter goes on, so the cakes brown quickly and set. A cool griddle lets the batter spread and steam, leaving the cakes pale, soggy, and 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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