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Rice Flour Pudding

A sweet pudding made from rice flour, milk, sugar, lemon extract, and salt, cooked until thick and served with milk sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Rice Flour Pudding

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 ↓

Rice Flour Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the pudding

  1. Combine 1 pint of milk, sugar, lemon extract, and salt in a saucepan.

  2. Place the saucepan in a pan of boiling water over heat.

  3. Mix the rice flour with the remaining ½ pint of milk until smooth.

  4. Once the milk mixture is hot, stir in the rice flour mixture.

  5. Stir constantly until thickened, about 15 minutes.

Mold and serve

  1. Pour the pudding into a porcelain mold that has been dipped in cold water.

  2. Allow it to cool before turning it out.

  3. Serve with a milk sauce.

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

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

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

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

  3. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together78,219 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Flour + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together92,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: phenylacetaldehyde (hawthorne, honey).

  5. Milk + lemontop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,053 recipes

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

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Its starch thickens the hot milk into a smooth, set pudding.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice flour thickens into the pudding body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the flavor of the pudding.
Lemon extract
Adds a bright citrus aroma to the pudding.

The step that matters

Stir constantly until thickened. Starch in the rice flour can clump or scorch on the bottom of the pan if left unstirred. Constant stirring keeps the mixture smooth as the starch swells and thickens the milk.

Swap the lemon

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

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

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, flour, milk, 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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