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Rice and Apple Pudding

A baked pudding made from soft rice, stewed apples, butter, eggs, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,311 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rice and Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Press the stewed apples through a sieve.

  2. Mix the apple pulp thoroughly with the soft rice.

  3. Add the butter and beaten egg yolks, then sweeten to taste.

  4. Bake the mixture until set.

Top and serve

  1. Spread the beaten egg whites on top and bake until lightly browned.

  2. Serve chilled for best flavor.

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 + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the body of the pudding, giving it a soft, thick texture when combined with the apple pulp.
Apples
Provide moisture, sweetness and flavor, and help bind the pudding together.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and help the pudding set when baked.
Egg whites
Whipped and baked on top, they set into a light layer that browns lightly.

The step that matters

Bake the mixture until set. Egg yolks set through gentle heat, and underbaking leaves the pudding loose while overbaking can make it dry or curdled. Check that it is firm before adding the topping.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, butter, egg, sugar. 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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