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Rice Souffle

A custard-like rice soufflé made with milk, cream, eggs, sugar, orange peel, and juice, baked until set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Rice Souffle

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.

Make the rice base

  1. Cook the rice in boiling water with salt until tender.

  2. Drain the cooked rice.

  3. Combine the rice, milk, and cream in a double boiler.

  4. Cook the mixture for 20 minutes.

  5. Beat the egg yolks with powdered sugar.

  6. Mix the beaten yolks into the rice mixture.

  7. Remove the mixture from heat and let it cool.

  8. Stir in orange peel and juice.

Bake and serve

  1. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites gently.

  2. Pour the mixture into a well-buttered pudding dish.

  3. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 40 minutes.

  4. Serve immediately with a light, delicate sauce.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. 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

Eggs
Whites beaten stiff trap air, lifting the souffle as it bakes; yolks enrich the custard.
Rice
Starch thickens the milk and cream base, giving the souffle body and a soft, creamy texture.
Milk
Provides liquid and milk proteins that set gently with the eggs during baking.
Cream
Adds fat for a richer, smoother texture and a tender crumb.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the base and dissolves easily into the beaten yolks.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whites must be stiffly beaten and folded in gently. Deflating the foam removes the trapped air that makes the souffle rise, so it bakes flat and dense.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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