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Frozen Rice Pudding

A chilled dessert made from boiled rice, milk, orange rind, sugar, cream, and orange juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Frozen Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice in 1 quart of cold water until it reaches the boiling point.

  2. Strain off the water.

  3. Add 1 quart of hot milk and the grated rind of 3 oranges.

  4. Boil in a double boiler for 1 hour.

  5. Add 2 scant cups of sugar and ¼ teaspoon of salt.

  6. Boil for an additional 30 minutes or until tender.

Finish and freeze

  1. Set aside to cool.

  2. Whip 1 pint of cream.

  3. Add the whipped cream to the cooled rice along with the juice of 3 oranges.

  4. Freeze the mixture.

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

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

  3. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  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
Its starch swells and thickens the milk, giving the pudding body.
Milk
Its proteins and milk sugars add richness and a creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and keeps it softer when frozen.
Cream
Whipped air lightens the mixture and makes it smooth and creamy when frozen.
Orange juice
Adds acidity and bright citrus flavour that balances the sweetness.
Orange rind
Its aromatic oils add a fresh citrus scent and flavour.

The step that matters

Cool the rice before adding the whipped cream. Whipped cream is a foam of trapped air. Folding it into warm rice melts the fat and collapses the air, leaving a dense, watery texture instead of a light, smooth frozen pudding.

Swap the orange

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

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

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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