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Rice Waffles

Rice waffles are made from boiled rice, flour, eggs, butter, and baking powder, cooked in a waffle iron.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rice Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Mix the boiled rice with the butter until well combined.

  2. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix thoroughly.

  3. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs until light and fluffy.

  4. Combine the egg mixture with the rice mixture.

  5. Add cream gradually until you achieve a thin batter consistency.

Cook and serve

  1. Preheat your waffle iron and pour in the batter.

  2. Cook until golden brown and serve warm.

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.

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. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  2. Butter + flourtop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together124,287 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

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

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

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Butter and flour barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 124,287 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

Boiled rice
Adds body and a tender, soft crumb to the batter.
Butter
Adds fat for richness, tenderness, and flavor in the waffles.
Flour
Provides the main structure that holds the waffle together.
Baking powder
Releases gas during cooking so the waffles rise and lighten.
Eggs
Add structure, richness, and help bind the batter while setting.

The step that matters

Add the cream gradually. Adding cream slowly lets you judge the batter's thickness, so it becomes thin enough to spread in the iron without becoming runny. Too much liquid at once can make the batter hard to control and the waffles dense or soggy.

“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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