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Rice Pudding with Fruit

A sweet rice pudding cooked with milk, rice, apples, and eggs, served warm with cream and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice 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 ↓

Rice Pudding with Fruit

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. In a pot, combine the milk and rice.

  2. Add the apples (or currants/raisins) and simmer slowly until the rice is very soft.

  3. Stir in the beaten egg to bind the mixture.

Serve

  1. Serve warm with cream and sugar.

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. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

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

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

  3. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  4. Rice + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  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
Its starch softens and thickens the milk as it simmers, giving the pudding body.
Milk
Provides the liquid the rice cooks in, becoming a creamy base for the pudding.
Egg
Binds the mixture, setting slightly with heat to hold the pudding together.
Apples
Add fruit flavour and some sweetness and moisture as they soften while simmering.

The step that matters

Simmer slowly until the rice is very soft. Rice needs gentle, long heat to fully soften and release starch. A fast boil can scorch the milk on the bottom of the pot and leave the grains firm.

Swap the apple

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

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

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