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Eice Meringues

A baked rice pudding topped with a sweet meringue.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Nutmeg and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,377 recipes. Both carry alpha-terpineol, which smells lilac, floral. The science ↓

Eice Meringues

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the base

  1. Boil the rice until soft and let it cool.

  2. In a bowl, combine the cooled rice, milk, egg yolks, sugar, and nutmeg.

  3. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes.

  4. Stir in the raisins when the dish is partly baked.

Top and finish

  1. Beat the egg whites with sugar until stiff peaks form.

  2. Spread the meringue over the rice mixture and bake until lightly browned.

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. Nutmeg + raisintop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,377 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-terpineol (lilac, floral).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

  3. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + raisintop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the pudding and gives it a soft, tender body.
Milk
Provides liquid that sets with the egg yolks into a creamy custard.
Egg yolks
Thicken the custard and enrich the texture as they set in the oven.
Egg whites
Whipped with sugar to form a light meringue that bakes to a golden top.
Sugar
Sweetens the custard and stabilises the whipped egg white meringue.

The step that matters

Beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Egg whites must be whipped to stiff peaks, with sugar added, so they trap air and hold their shape. Under-whipped or greasy whites will collapse or weep when spread and baked.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, egg, sugar, nutmeg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Raisinthe original
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, egg, sugar, nutmeg. 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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