From 1911:
Two tablespoons butter, one egg, one and a half cups milk, a quarter cup sugar, one tablespoon baking powder, half a cup cooked rice and two and a half cups flour.
Mode of Preparing:
Mix and sift the dry ingredients; work in the rice when cold; add well beaten egg, milk and melted butter. Drop by teaspoons on a hot, greased griddle; cook on one side. When puffed full of bubbles and cooked on edges, turn and cook on other side.