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Whole Rice Cream Ice

A frozen custard dessert made with cream, sugar, egg yolks, boiled rice, curaçao, almond milk, and orange compote.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and orange are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,125 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Whole Rice Cream Ice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard

  1. Mix the cream, sugar, almond milk, and egg yolks to make a custard.

  2. Add the curaçao and boiled rice to the custard.

Freeze and set

  1. Freeze the mixture and set it in a mold.

  2. Once set, turn it out onto a dish.

Garnish and serve

  1. Garnish the base with pieces of oranges.

  2. Pour syrup over it.

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. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  2. Rice + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Egg yolks
Emulsify and thicken the custard, giving the frozen dessert a rich, smooth body.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, keeping the frozen texture smooth and creamy rather than icy.
Sugar
Sweetens the base and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.
Rice
Adds body and a soft, starchy texture to the frozen custard.

The step that matters

Freeze the mixture and set it in a mold. Freezing a custard without enough sugar or fat forms large ice crystals and a grainy texture. Let it freeze evenly and firm fully before unmolding, so it holds its shape cleanly.

Swap the orange

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

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

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