Name: English Frozen Pudding
Ingredients: 2 cups cold boiled rice; 2 cups rich boiled custard; 1 cup orange juice; Quartered oranges for garnish

Why it works: Rice and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,067 recipes. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

English Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

2 cups cold boiled rice
2 cups rich boiled custard
1 cup orange juice
Quartered oranges for garnish

Directions

Make the pudding

Pour the rich boiled custard over the cold boiled rice.
Beat the mixture together with the orange juice.
Freeze the mixture in a brick mold.

Serve

When ready, turn out the pudding and place quartered oranges on top.

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.

Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,067 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Cold boiled rice: Provides the bulk and body of the pudding.
Rich boiled custard: Adds richness and creamy texture that softens the frozen set.
Orange juice: Adds acidity and fruity flavor to the custard base.

“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.