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Rice and Strawberry Pudding

A pudding made by cooking rice, sweetening strawberries, mixing them together, and serving warm or chilled with milk or cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Rice and Strawberry Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice in water until fully cooked.

Add the strawberries

  1. Prepare the strawberries by adding sugar to taste.

  2. Stir the sugared strawberries into the cooked rice.

Serve

  1. Turn the mixture out into a glass fruit dish.

  2. Serve warm.

  3. Mold and serve cold with milk or 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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Sugar + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

Sugar and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 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

Rice
Forms the bulk and soft, creamy body of the pudding as its starch cooks and sets.
Strawberries
Add moisture, fruity aroma and acidity that brighten the sweet rice.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the strawberries, balancing their tartness.

The step that matters

Cook the rice until fully tender. Rice starch swells and softens as it cooks in water. Undercooked grains stay firm and chalky, so they will not blend into a soft, creamy pudding with the fruit.

“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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