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Ice Pudding a LA Cintra

An ice pudding made with rice, milk, cream, sugar, eggs, and a compote of oranges and apricot jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and apricot match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 703 recipes. Both carry ethyl isobutyrate, which smells fruity, ethereal. The science ↓

Ice Pudding a LA Cintra

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard base

  1. Boil the rice in milk until tender.

  2. Add cream, sugar, noix, and whisked eggs; heat over low until boiling.

  3. Place the stewpan in cold water and stir until nearly cold.

Freeze and mold

  1. Transfer the mixture to a freezer and churn until thoroughly frozen.

  2. Fill a mold with the ice and pack it in rough ice and salt until needed.

Make the orange compote and serve

  1. Pare and quarter the oranges, then place them in a pot with water and sugar.

  2. Gently boil the oranges for 2 minutes, then drain them.

  3. Reduce the syrup to half its original quantity, then add apricot jam and noix; boil for 1 minute.

  4. Pour the syrup over the oranges and let it cool completely.

  5. Before serving, dip the mold in lukewarm water, wipe it, and turn the pudding out onto a dish.

  6. Arrange the orange compote around the pudding and serve.

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. Orange + apricottop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together703 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl isobutyrate (fruity, ethereal).

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

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

  3. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  4. Milk + apricottop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together826 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Thicken the custard base as they heat and help it set when frozen.
Cream
Adds fat for a richer, smoother texture in the frozen pudding.
Milk
Forms the liquid base of the custard and carries the rice's flavor.
Rice
Cooked in milk, its starch thickens the base and gives the pudding body.
Oranges
Supply bright citrus flavor and acidity to the compote.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice softer.

The step that matters

Heating the eggs over low heat. Eggs thicken the custard, but if heated too fast or left unstirred they can scramble. Low heat and constant stirring keep the base smooth before it is chilled and churned.

Swap the orange

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

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

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