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Frozen Rice Pudding

A creamy pudding made from rice, milk, cream, sugar, and orange zest, cooked slowly over a double boiler.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Frozen Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice and soak it for 1 hour.

  2. Drain the water and place the rice in the inner pot of a double boiler with 1 quart of cold water.

  3. Bring the mixture to a boil.

  4. Drain off all the water from the rice.

Cook the pudding

  1. Add the grated rind of the orange, salt, milk, and 1 cup of sugar.

  2. Place over boiling water.

  3. Cook for 2 hours.

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

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

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

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

  3. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch swells and thickens the liquid as it cooks, giving the pudding body.
Milk
Cooks slowly with the rice and sets into a soft, creamy custard-like texture.
Cream
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, silkier mouthfeel.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the citrus.
Orange juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the pudding.
Orange rind
Adds fragrant citrus aroma from the oils in the peel.

The step that matters

Cook over gently boiling water in the double boiler. Indirect steam heat warms the rice and milk slowly and evenly. Direct high heat would scorch the milk on the base and cause sticking, so the pot should not sit over a hard boil.

Swap the orange

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

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

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