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Rice with Marmalade

A simple dish of cooked rice mixed with butter, salt, and fruit marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,311 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rice with Marmalade

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook rice according to package instructions and drain.

  2. Return rice to a saucepan over low heat to dry for a few minutes.

  3. Add salt and butter, stirring lightly with a fork.

  4. Stir in the marmalade until well combined.

  5. Serve hot.

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 + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and absorbs the butter and marmalade as they are stirred in.
Butter
Adds fat for richness, a glossy coating, and a smooth mouthfeel to the rice.
Apple marmalade
Adds sweetness, fruity aroma, and a touch of acidity that brightens the rice.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, butter):

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter. 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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