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Rice Pudding with Peaches

A baked rice pudding flavored with peaches and sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice 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 ↓

Rice Pudding with Peaches

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cook the blanched rice in milk in a double boiler, covered, until soft.

  2. Add sugar, beaten eggs, and peaches.

  3. Bake for 10 minutes.

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 + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  3. Rice + peachtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

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

  5. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Milk
Forms the liquid the rice softens in, setting into a creamy base for the pudding.
Rice
Absorbs the milk as it cooks, giving the pudding its body and soft texture.
Eggs
Set when heated, giving the pudding structure and a custard-like firmness.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps it brown lightly in the oven.
Peaches
Adds fruity flavor and moisture to the pudding.

The step that matters

Adding the beaten eggs. Eggs thicken gently as they heat, but too much heat can make them curdle or turn grainy. Stir them in evenly so they blend smoothly, and avoid letting the pudding boil hard before it goes into the oven.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

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