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Apple-and-rice Pudding

A baked pudding made from apples, rice, sugar, butter, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and rice are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,311 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Apple-and-rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the apple pulp

  1. Boil the apples and sugar together until reduced to a smooth pulp, stirring often to prevent burning.

Combine and bake

  1. Mix in the boiled rice and butter while the mixture is still warm.

  2. Add the eggs and mix well.

  3. If the apples are very acidic, increase the sugar and add lemon rind or juice to taste.

  4. Bake at 350°F (175°C) for 30 to 35 minutes.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  2. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 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

Pudding-apples
Break down into a smooth pulp that forms the body and flavor of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the apple pulp and balances its natural acidity.
Boiled rice
Adds body and bulk, giving the pudding a soft, tender texture.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smoother, moister texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during baking to give the pudding structure.

The step that matters

Stirring the apples while they boil. Sugary fruit scorches easily on the pan bottom. Frequent stirring spreads heat evenly and prevents burnt flavor, while the apples reduce to a smooth pulp.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, rice, butter, egg. 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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