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Riz Au Punch Bt Aux Fraises

A chilled dessert of rice mixed with punch, apricot marmalade, gelatin, pistachios, pineapple, and topped with strawberry puree.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Riz Au Punch Bt Aux Fraises

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no cooking times; the times in the steps were added in transcription, so check for doneness rather than trusting the clock.

Cook the rice

  1. Boil 1 ¼ cups of rice in a large pot of water with ¼ teaspoon of salt and the juice of 2 lemons until tender, keeping the grains whole.

  2. Drain the rice and let it cool on a large plate.

Make the punch gelatin

  1. In a saucepan, combine 5 to 6 tablespoons of apricot marmalade with ⅓ cup of punch syrup and the juice of 1 orange.

  2. Add 8 to 10 sheets of clarified gelatin and stir until dissolved.

  3. Chill the mixture over ice until it thickens, then fold in the rice, chopped pistachios, and diced pineapple.

Set and serve

  1. After 2 minutes, pour the mixture into a mold surrounded by crushed ice.

  2. After 1 hour, unmold the dessert onto a plate and cover the bottom with chilled sweetened strawberry puree.

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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Apricot + pineappletop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together377 recipes

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

  3. Syrup + gelatintop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together192 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Orange + pineappletop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,664 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  5. Lemon + pistachiotop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together431 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Provides the body of the dessert, with cooked grains giving bite within the set gelatin.
Clarified gelatin
Sets the liquid mixture so it holds its shape when unmolded.
Apricot marmalade
Adds sweetness, fruit flavour and body to the punch base.
Punch syrup
Supplies the main sweet, flavoured liquid that the gelatin sets.
Pistachios
Add crunch and nutty flavour against the soft set texture.
Diced pineapple
Adds juicy texture and acidity that brightens the sweet base.

The step that matters

Chill the mixture until it thickens before folding in the rice. Gelatin must be partly set but still fluid. If the mixture is too cold it clumps and the rice, pistachios and pineapple will not distribute evenly, and if too warm they will sink and the dessert will not hold its shape when unmolded.

Swap the pistachio

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, lemon, apricot, syrup, orange, gelatin, pineapple):

  1. Almondfits about as well
  2. Pistachiothe original
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Beansfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, lemon, apricot, syrup, orange, gelatin, pineapple. 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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