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Rice Pudding Boiled

A boiled rice pudding made with rice, suet, egg, and sugar, served with optional butter, sugar, or milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk 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 Pudding Boiled

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the rice in water until sufficiently cooked.

  2. Stir in the suet until melted.

  3. Add the egg and sugar, then boil together for 45 minutes.

  4. Alternatively, wash and pick the rice, tie it in a cloth, and boil in water for 1 to 2 hours.

  5. Serve with butter and sugar or milk if desired.

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. Butter + milktop 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. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Suet
Melts into the rice to add richness and a soft, moist texture.
Egg
Binds the mixture and helps it set as it cooks.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the pudding.

The step that matters

Boil the rice until sufficiently cooked. Whole rice grains must soften fully in the water; undercooked rice stays firm and chalky. Simmering gently with enough water keeps the grains from sticking and splitting before they are tender.

“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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