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Eioe and Peach Pudding

A baked dessert of boiled rice, peaches, sugar, lemon, and meringue topping.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and peach match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 171 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Eioe and Peach Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Bake the rice base

  1. Mix the rice with sugar, salt, lemon juice, and peaches.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a baking dish.

  3. Bake for 10 minutes.

Top and serve

  1. Prepare a meringue by beating the egg whites and adding sugar.

  2. Spread the meringue on top of the baked mixture.

  3. Bake for a few more minutes.

  4. Serve cold with cream.

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. Rice + peachtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together171 recipes

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

  2. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  3. Peach + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together947 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + peachtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,308 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  5. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Boiled rice
Forms the body of the pudding, giving it a soft, starchy base.
Egg whites
Whip into a meringue that sets and browns on top of the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps the meringue become glossy and stable.
Peaches
Add moisture and fruity sweetness to the rice base.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the sweetness of the fruit and sugar.

The step that matters

Spread the meringue on top of the baked mixture.. Egg whites whipped with sugar form a stable foam only when beaten fully and kept free of grease or yolk. Under-whipped or deflated meringue weeps and browns unevenly in the oven.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Orangefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Limefits better
  4. Peachthe original

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