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Rice Souffle

A chilled dessert made by cooking rice with milk and salt, folding in whipped cream, and setting in a mold.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Rice Souffle

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice.

  2. Cook the rice in a double boiler with the milk and salt for about 3 hours.

  3. Allow the mixture to cool.

Assemble and set

  1. Whip the heavy cream until stiff peaks form.

  2. Stir the whipped cream into the rice mixture.

  3. Transfer the mixture to a mold.

  4. Refrigerate until set.

Serve

  1. Serve chilled with hot raspberry sauce or any other red fruit sauce.

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

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

  2. Milk + raspberrytop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,014 recipes

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

  3. Rice + raspberrytop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together201 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  4. Cream + raspberrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,332 recipes

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

  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
Cooked slowly in milk, it softens and thickens to form the creamy body of the soufflé.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to create a creamy base that sets as it cools.
Heavy cream
Whipped into stiff peaks, it adds air and lightness, giving a soft, mousse-like texture.

The step that matters

Stir the whipped cream into the rice mixture. The rice mixture must be cool before the cream goes in. Warm liquid deflates whipped cream, losing the air that gives the dish its light texture.

Swap the raspberry

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, 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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