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Rice Milk for a Dessert

A sweet rice pudding made with rice, milk, eggs, butter, sugar, and nutmeg, optionally flavored with raspberry marmalade or wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 Milk for a Dessert

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the rice in water until tender, then drain.

  2. Add the milk and beaten eggs to the rice.

  3. Boil the mixture for 2-3 minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with butter, sugar, and nutmeg.

  2. For a chilled version, sweeten and pour into molds, then turn out onto a deep dish.

  3. Surround with rich milk and stir in strained raspberry marmalade, if desired.

  4. Optionally, season the milk with wine and sugar.

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.

Explore the science

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

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

  4. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  5. Butter + winetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the body of the pudding as its starch thickens during boiling.
Milk
Provides liquid and moisture that the rice absorbs and softens in.
Eggs
Set when heated, helping the mixture thicken and hold together.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a smoother mouthfeel.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the flavor of the milk and eggs.

The step that matters

Boil the mixture for 2-3 minutes. Eggs thicken as their proteins set with heat, but overheating can curdle them into lumps. Hold the boil brief and keep the mixture moving so the pudding turns creamy rather than grainy.

Swap the raspberry

The recipe marks raspberry as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, egg, butter, sugar, nutmeg, wine):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raspberrythe original

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