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Ground Rice Pudding

A sweet pudding made from ground rice, eggs, cream, sugar, and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Ground Rice Pudding

Oven, in the book's wordsA gentle oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the ground rice in water until soft.

  2. Beat the egg yolks in a bowl.

Make the pudding

  1. Add the cream, sugar, and butter to the egg yolks and mix well.

  2. Combine the rice with the mixture and stir until smooth.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

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

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

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

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

  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

Ground rice
Cooked until soft, it thickens the pudding and gives it body.
Egg yolks
They add richness and help the pudding set as it cooks.
Cream
Adds richness and moisture for a smooth, soft texture.
Sugar
Provides sweetness and balances the richness of the cream and butter.
Butter
Adds fat for a rich flavor and a silky mouthfeel.

The step that matters

Combine the rice with the mixture and stir until smooth. Stirring thoroughly breaks up any lumps of cooked rice and blends the starch evenly through the custard, so the pudding sets with a uniform, creamy texture rather than a grainy one.

“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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