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Rice Slice

A boiled rice and raisin mixture sliced and served with cream and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and sugar 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 ↓

Rice Slice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Tie the rice, raisins, and salt loosely in a bag.

  2. Boil in salted water for 2 hours.

  3. Slice the mixture and serve with cream and sugar.

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

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

  2. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

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

  4. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. 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

Raw rice
Starch swells and sets as it cooks, giving the slice its body and holding it together.
Seeded raisins
Add sweetness and a chewy texture as they soften in the cooking water.
Cream
Adds richness and fat that contrasts with the sweet, starchy slice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the serving.

The step that matters

Tie the bag loosely. Rice grains absorb water and swell substantially as they cook. A tight tie leaves no room for expansion, so the bag can burst or the rice can cook unevenly and become dense.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinthe original
  4. Strawberryfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, cream, 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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