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Rice Pie

A baked pie made with rice, milk, eggs, sugar, butter, cinnamon, raisins, and a pie crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and raisin are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,390 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

Rice Pie

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Wash the rice and place it in a frying pan with the milk.

  2. Cook until the rice is soft.

  3. Let the mixture cool.

Finish and bake

  1. Add the beaten eggs, sugar, butter, salt, cinnamon, and raisins.

  2. Pour the mixture into a pie crust and bake.

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. Cinnamon + raisintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,390 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  4. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Softens in the milk and thickens the filling, giving it body.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice cooks in and the custard sets from.
Eggs
Set when baked, giving the filling structure and a custard-like firmness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the richness of the milk and eggs.
Butter
Adds fat, which gives the filling a richer, smoother texture.
Cinnamon
Adds warm aroma and flavour to the filling.

The step that matters

Let the mixture cool before adding the eggs. Eggs can scramble when they meet very hot liquid. Cooling the rice mixture first lets the beaten eggs blend in smoothly so they set into an even custard when baked.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Raisinthe original

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