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Rice Cream

Rice cream is a sweet dessert made from ground rice, milk, lemon sugar, gelatin, butter, and thick cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Rice Cream

Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Rice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Mix the ground rice smoothly with a little milk.

  2. Add more milk to make ½ pint.

  3. Pour the mixture into a saucepan with the lemon sugar, gelatin, and butter.

  4. Boil gently for five minutes, stirring constantly.

  5. Pour the mixture out and let it cool slightly.

Finish and set

  1. Stir in the thick cream.

  2. Beat the mixture until it begins to stiffen.

  3. Pour the mixture into a mold.

  4. Place the mold in a cool place to set.

  5. Serve with fresh fruit or fruit jelly reduced to syrup.

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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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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

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

  5. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the cream a soft, body-filled texture.
Isinglass or gelatine
Sets the liquid so the rice cream holds its shape when cold.
Thick cream
Adds richness and fat, softening the set and giving a smoother mouthfeel.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice thickens and gelatine sets.

The step that matters

Beat the mixture until it begins to stiffen. Beating while the mixture cools traps air and breaks up forming gel, so the dessert sets light and even. Beat too late and it becomes lumpy or fails to mould smoothly.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, butter, 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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