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Rice Water

Rice water is a beverage made by boiling rice in water and adding fruit jelly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Rice Water

Why it works: Rice and currant work together. They rank in the top 27% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 497 recipes. Both carry isoamyl acetate, which smells banana, pear. The science ↓

Rice Water

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil ½ cup of rice in 2 quarts of water for 1.5 hours.

  2. For each glass of water, add 1 teaspoon of currant jelly or any desired fruit jelly.

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 + curranttop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together497 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch from the rice thickens the water and gives the drink a light body.
Currant jelly or fruit jelly
Adds sweetness and fruit flavor to the water.

“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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