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Rice Cheese

Rice Cheese is a sweet rice pudding made with milk, butter, sugar, eggs, and a splash of white wine.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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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 Cheese

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in less than ½ pint of milk until thick like hasty pudding.

  2. Pour the hot rice mixture over 1½ ounces of butter and 1½ ounces of sugar, mixing well.

  3. Let the mixture cool.

Finish the mixture

  1. Add 1 egg, the yolk of another egg, and a little white wine.

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. 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 + white winetop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,083 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  5. Milk + white winetop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together929 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the mixture a body like hasty pudding.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to form a thick, creamy base.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving a smooth texture to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the richness of the butter and egg.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and add structure as they set during cooking.

The step that matters

Pour the hot rice mixture over the butter and sugar. Mixing well while the rice is hot lets the butter melt and the sugar dissolve evenly. Cooling too early or leaving lumps can leave the texture uneven.

“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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