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Frozen Rice Pudding

A sweet rice pudding made with rice, milk, sugar, vanilla, cream, and salt, then frozen.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Frozen Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice well to remove its floury coating.

  2. Place the rice in a double boiler with the milk and a good pinch of salt.

  3. Cook thoroughly until the rice is tender.

Sweeten and freeze

  1. Let the mixture cool, then sweeten and add the vanilla.

  2. When ready to freeze, stir in the cream.

  3. Pack the mixture away without using too much salt to avoid it being too firm.

Serve

  1. Serve with crushed fruit in season (well sugared) or any preserve.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

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

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Rice + vanillatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,352 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Provides the starchy body of the pudding once cooked until tender in the milk.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to form the creamy base of the pudding.
Cream
Adds fat and richness, giving a smoother texture to the frozen pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and softens its texture once frozen.

The step that matters

Packing the mixture with salt. Salt lowers the freezing point of the mixture, so using too much makes the pudding harder to scoop and too firm when frozen.

“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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