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Rice Balls, Wlfh Custard

A dish of rice cooked in milk, shaped in cups, turned out and served with jelly and soft custard.

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 Balls, Wlfh Custard

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice well.

  2. Soak the rice for 1 hour in enough water to cover it.

  3. Pour off the water.

  4. Add the milk.

  5. Cook in a double boiler for 1 hour.

  6. Stir in the salt.

  7. Cook for an additional 30 minutes.

Shape and serve

  1. Dip small custard cups in cold water.

  2. Fill the cups with the cooked rice.

  3. Let the rice cool in the cups.

  4. At serving time, turn the rice mounds out onto a flat dish.

  5. Add a bit of jelly on each mound.

  6. Pour soft custard around them.

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).

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 rice balls and sets firm as it cools in the cups.
Milk
Cooks into the rice, adding moisture and a creamy, tender texture.

The step that matters

Let the rice cool in the cups. Cooked rice needs time to cool and firm up before unmolding; turning it out while still hot and soft can make the mounds collapse or tear.

“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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