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Cheese and Rice Loaf

A baked loaf made with cooked rice, grated cheese, milk, bread crumbs, eggs, and seasonings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,130 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Cheese and Rice Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the base

  1. Melt fat in a pan.

  2. Add chopped onion and pepper, then cook for 2 minutes.

  3. Stir in bread crumbs and milk.

  4. Add cheese and rice.

  5. Let cool.

Bake and serve

  1. Mix in well-beaten eggs.

  2. Pour the mixture into a greased dish.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

  4. Serve with cheese or 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.

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

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

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

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

  3. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  4. Cheese + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,426 recipes

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

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set firm when baked.
Cooked rice
Adds body and bulk so the loaf holds a sliceable texture.
Grated cheese
Adds richness and flavour and helps the loaf bind as it melts.
Bread crumbs
Absorb the milk and give the loaf soft structure and body.
Skimmed milk
Provides moisture that softens the crumbs and keeps the loaf tender.

The step that matters

Let cool before adding the eggs. Eggs scramble when they meet very hot mixtures, leaving lumps and uneven setting. Letting the base cool first lets the beaten eggs blend in smoothly and set evenly in the oven.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Asparagusfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

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