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Boiled Rice Pudding. No. 1

A sweet pudding made from boiled rice, sugar, eggs, butter, and lemon essence, baked in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,366 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Boiled Rice Pudding. No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the batter

  1. Combine the rice, sugar, eggs, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.

  2. Beat the mixture until light and white.

  3. Cream the butter.

  4. Add the butter and lemon essence to the mixture.

  5. Beat the mixture for five minutes.

Cook and serve

  1. Butter a mold.

  2. Pour the pudding mixture into the mold.

  3. Boil the pudding for two hours.

  4. Serve with sweet fruit 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. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Bind the mixture and add structure as the pudding sets.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, moist texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the mixture turn light when beaten.
Cold boiled rice
Forms the body of the pudding and gives it a soft, chewy texture.
Baking soda
Helps the pudding rise and lighten in texture.

The step that matters

Beating the mixture until light and white. Beating incorporates air into the eggs and sugar, which gives the pudding lift and a light texture. Under-beating leaves it dense, while the eggs and butter must be fully blended so the batter stays smooth.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

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