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Delicious Rick Waffles

A waffle made with boiled rice, eggs, milk, and flour.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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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 ↓

Delicious Rick Waffles

Ingredients

Directions

Make the batter

  1. Beat the yolks of the eggs until light.

  2. Add the boiled rice, milk, salt, and baking powder to the yolks.

  3. Gently fold in the beaten egg whites.

  4. In a separate bowl, combine the cream, sweet milk, flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.

  5. Beat the yolks and add to the cream mixture, then fold in the beaten egg whites and mix until you have a thick batter.

Cook the waffles

  1. Preheat the waffle iron and grease it well before using.

  2. Pour the batter into the hot waffle iron and cook until golden brown.

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

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Milk + flourtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Egg + flourtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together106,462 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

Milk and flour 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

Eggs
Whipped whites trap air for lightness, while yolks add richness and structure.
Flour
Provides the starch and gluten network that gives the waffles their structure.
Baking powder
Releases gas in the batter so the waffles rise and become airy.
Sweet cream
Adds fat for richness and a tender, moist crumb.
Boiled rice
Adds soft body and moisture to the batter, giving a tender interior.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the surface brown as it cooks.

The step that matters

Fold in the beaten egg whites gently. Folding keeps the air trapped in the whites intact. Stirring vigorously knocks that air out, so the waffles come out denser and less light.

“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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