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Apple Pudding with Rice

A baked pudding made with apples, rice, milk, eggs, and sugar, topped with browned meringue.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk 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 ↓

Apple Pudding with Rice

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare the pudding

  1. Core and chop the apples.

  2. In a bowl, combine the chopped apples, boiled rice, milk, and egg yolks.

  3. Beat until smooth, then add the sugar and lemon juice and rind.

Bake and top

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake at 350°F (175°C) until set.

  2. Beat the egg whites with a little sugar until stiff peaks form.

  3. Spread the egg whites on top of the pudding and brown under the broiler.

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

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

  2. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  5. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Sour apples
Provide the main fruit flavor and moisture that keeps the pudding tender.
Boiled rice
Gives the pudding body and a soft, creamy structure as it sets.
Milk
Supplies liquid that cooks with the eggs and rice into a custard-like base.
Egg yolks
Thicken the base and help it set firm when baked.
Egg whites
Whipped into a meringue that forms a light topping and browns under the broiler.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the meringue become glossy and stable.

The step that matters

Beating the egg whites to stiff peaks. Egg whites must be whipped until stiff peaks form so the meringue holds its shape and stays airy. Under-whipped whites will weep and spread on the pudding, while overbaking under the broiler can scorch the topping quickly.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

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