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Cream Rice Pudding

A sweet pudding made from rice, milk, sugar, and flavored with vanilla or orange, topped with whipped cream and maraschino cherries.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Cream Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Wash the rice thoroughly.

  2. Place the washed rice in a double boiler with the milk and salt.

  3. Cook the rice in the double boiler until it is tender.

  4. Stir in the sugar.

Cool and chill

  1. Cool the mixture.

  2. Add your choice of flavoring, either vanilla or orange extract.

  3. Chill the pudding.

Serve

  1. Serve topped with whipped cream mixed with chopped maraschino cherries and a little of their juice.

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. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  5. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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
Forms the body of the pudding as its starch softens and thickens the milk during cooking.
Milk
Provides the liquid that the rice absorbs and the creamy base of the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps give the finished pudding a smooth, rounded flavor.
Whipped cream
Adds richness and a light, airy topping that contrasts with the dense pudding.

The step that matters

Cook the rice until tender. Rice must be cooked long enough for its starch to soften fully and absorb the milk. Gentle heat in a double boiler reduces scorching and keeps the milk from curdling or sticking.

“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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