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Red Rice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Why it works: Flour and currant are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,077 recipes. The science ↓

Red Rice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the flour and salt together.

  2. Add water to form a stiff dough.

  3. Shape the dough into dumplings and roll them in dry flour.

  4. Drop the dumplings into boiling water and boil for about 1 hour.

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 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. Flour + curranttop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,077 recipes

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