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Frozen Rice

A chilled rice dessert made with milk, sugar, oranges, candied cherries, and whipped cream.

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 ↓

Frozen Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil rice in ice water, adding milk as it boils away.

  2. When the rice is tender, add salt, sugar, and grated orange rind.

Prepare the fruit

  1. Finely chop the candied cherries and soak them in the juice of the oranges.

Finish and freeze

  1. Once cold, mix in orange juice and cherries, then fold in whipped cream and freeze.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooks into a soft, starchy base that gives the pudding its body.
Milk
Adds richness and creaminess as the rice absorbs it while cooking.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and softens the texture after freezing.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, keeping the frozen pudding light and smooth.
Candied cherries
Add chewy texture and concentrated sweetness to the pudding.

The step that matters

Boil rice in ice water, adding milk as it boils away. Rice can scorch or stick if the liquid runs out, and adding milk gradually keeps it moving and cooking evenly. Rice that is not fully tender will leave the finished pudding gritty.

Swap the orange

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

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

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