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Rice with Raisins

A simple dish of cooked rice mixed with raisins, served with fruit juice, milk, or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Rice with Raisins

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the rice and cook it according to package instructions.

  2. Once the rice begins to swell, add the well-washed raisins.

  3. When the rice is fully cooked, serve it with fruit juice, milk, or cream.

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

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  3. Raisin + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the dish and absorbs liquid as it cooks, giving it a soft, tender texture.
Raisins
Add sweetness and chewy texture, and plump up as they absorb moisture from the cooking rice.

The step that matters

Adding the raisins once the rice begins to swell. Adding raisins too early can let them break down and turn mushy, while adding them once the rice has started to swell lets them warm through and plump without losing their shape.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk. 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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