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Orange and Rice Loaf

A loaf made from cooked rice, milk, sugar, eggs, orange juice, and orange extract, served with whipped cream and orange slices.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 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 ↓

Orange and Rice Loaf

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Boil rice in water until tender, then drain.

  2. In a double boiler, combine rice, milk, sugar, egg yolks, orange juice, and salt.

  3. Cook for 15 minutes.

  4. Remove from heat and stir in orange extract.

Set and serve

  1. Pour mixture into a mold and let it cool.

  2. Once cooled, unmold and serve garnished with whipped cream and orange slices.

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. 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. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

  4. Milk + orangetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

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

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

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 loaf and gives it a tender, starchy structure as it cooks.
Egg yolks
Thicken the mixture as they cook gently, helping it set into a sliceable loaf.
Milk
Adds richness and softness, and helps the mixture cook into a smooth custard.
Sugar
Sweetens the loaf and helps keep it moist and tender.
Orange juice
Adds liquid and bright citrus acidity that flavours the loaf.

The step that matters

Cook gently in the double boiler. Egg yolks set at moderate heat and can curdle or turn grainy if overheated. A double boiler keeps the temperature gentle and even, giving a smooth, firm texture.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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