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Rice and Almond Frozen Pudding

A chilled pudding made from rice, milk, sugar, whipped cream, and almonds, served with fruit.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,456 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rice and Almond Frozen Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the rice in milk until tender.

  2. Add sugar to taste, whipped cream, and chopped almonds.

Freeze and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and pack it in ice for 4 hours.

  2. Serve with fresh or stewed fruit.

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 + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

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

  4. Cream + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,130 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  5. Milk + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk until tender, it thickens the mixture and gives the pudding its body.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to form the creamy base that freezes into a soft texture.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and air, making the frozen pudding richer and lighter in texture.
Almonds
Add crunch and a nutty flavor that contrasts with the smooth, creamy base.

The step that matters

Pack the mold in ice for 4 hours. Ice and salt-free packing must hold the mold steadily cold for the full time, otherwise the pudding freezes unevenly or stays soft in places.

Swap the almond

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

  1. Almondthe original
  2. Peanutfits about as well
  3. Chestnutfits about as well
  4. Pistachiofits about as well

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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