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Rice-cones

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Rice-cones

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mold hot boiled rice in cups dipped in cold water.

  2. Once cold, turn the rice out onto a flat dish, arranging uniformly.

  3. Scoop out a little rice from the top of each cone with a teaspoon.

  4. Fill the scooped-out space with jelly.

  5. Just before serving, pour hot brandy-sauce into the bottom of the dish.

  6. For added flavor, boil a stick of cinnamon in the rice while cooking.

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 + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Brandy + cinnamontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,199 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Rice + saucetop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,396 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Rice + brandytop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together378 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sauce + cinnamontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together713 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the cinnamon

The recipe marks cinnamon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, brandy, sauce):

  1. Cinnamonthe original
  2. Nutmegfits about as well
  3. Capersfits less well
  4. Gingerfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, brandy, sauce. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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