Name: Strawberry Rice Mountain
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 2 cups strawberries; sugar to taste; cream for serving

Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Strawberry Rice Mountain

Ingredients

1 cup rice
2 cups strawberries
sugar to taste
cream for serving

Directions

Prepare

Cook the rice according to package instructions until stiff.
Spread a large flat plate with a layer of rice.

Build the mountain

Add a layer of strawberries on top of the rice.
Repeat layering with rice and strawberries, forming a pyramid shape.
Top with a large strawberry and arrange additional berries around the edge.

Chill and serve

Refrigerate until cold and serve with sugar and cream.

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.

Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together43,450 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).
Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together3,399 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).
Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice: Forms the bulk of the mountain and holds its shape when cooked until stiff.
Strawberries: Provide the fruity flavor, moisture and color of the dish.

“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.