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Rice Cream

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Rice Cream

Why it works: Orange and quince work together. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 152 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Rice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil rice for 1 hour and 45 minutes.

  2. In a saucepan, combine sugar and boiling water; boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Add orange juice to the syrup and remove from heat.

  4. Stir in the cooked rice and let the mixture cool.

  5. Once cool, add the cream and freeze.

  6. To serve, turn out onto a flat dish and serve with quince preserve.

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. Orange + quincetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together152 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + orangetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together19,212 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + quincetop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,444 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

  5. Cream + quincetop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together203 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Sugar and orange barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 19,212 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Swap the quince

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Lemonfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Quincethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, orange, cream. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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