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Rice-cake, with Peaches

A baked rice cake layered with peaches, sweetened with butter, sugar, and eggs, served with optional custard sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and bread are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rice-cake, with Peaches

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. In a steamer, cook rice with milk until hot.

  2. Stir in butter, sugar, and eggs.

  3. Butter a pudding mold and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

Assemble and bake

  1. Layer rice and peaches alternately until the mold is full.

  2. Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 15-20 minutes.

Serve

  1. Turn the cake out of the mold and serve with custard sauce.

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. Butter + breadtop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

  3. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  4. Milk + peachtop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together781 recipes

    Shared aroma: phellandrene (minty).

  5. Milk + breadtop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11,466 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Cooked rice
Forms the bulk of the cake and sets into a firm, sliceable body as it cooks.
Eggs
Bind the rice mixture and help it set firmly during baking.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a softer, more tender texture.
Milk
Moistens the rice and keeps the mixture tender while it heats.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the cake brown lightly in the oven.
Peaches
Add moisture and fruity sweetness, layered through the rice.

The step that matters

Layering rice and peaches until the mold is full. Packing the layers evenly removes gaps where air can sit, so the cake holds its shape when turned out and cooks at a uniform rate. Uneven packing can leave loose, collapsed sections.

Swap the peach

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits about as well
  4. Peachthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, butter, sugar, egg, bread, sauce. 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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