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Eight-Treasure Rice Pudding

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook · 16 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lotus work together. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 17 recipes mention both. Both carry 2,4-nonadienal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

The recipe

Ingredients

Contains: wheat, peanut, tree nuts (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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Recipe from a historical cookbook.

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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Rice + lotustop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together17 recipes

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

  2. Rice + peanuttop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together592 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

  3. Peanut + walnuttop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together241 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

  4. Rice + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together423 recipes

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

  5. Dates + walnuttop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together303 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the dates

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, lotus, peanut, walnut, raisin, orange, sugar):

  1. Coconutbetter flavor fit
  2. Figbetter flavor fit
  3. Lemonbetter flavor fit
  4. Datesthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, lotus, peanut, walnut, raisin, orange, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).