Name: Savoury Rice
Ingredients: 1 cup rice; 2 apples

Why it works: Rice and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,311 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Savoury Rice

Ingredients

1 cup rice
2 apples

Directions

Cook the rice according to package instructions.
Make a hole in the center of the cooked rice.
Beat the apples until smooth.
Pour the smooth apples into the hole in the rice.

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.

Rice + appletop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

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What each ingredient does

Rice: Forms the starchy base that holds the apple mixture and gives the dish its bulk.
Apples: Add moisture, natural sweetness and fruity flavor to the dish.

“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.