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Red Rice {Rothe Griitze. — a Danish Dish.

A jam made from stewed red currants and raspberries, sweetened and thickened, then molded and cooled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Red currant and lemon work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 309 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Red Rice {Rothe Griitze. — a Danish Dish.

Ingredients

Directions

Make the jam

  1. Stew the red currants in water until the juice flows freely.

  2. Add the raspberries just before the currants are ready.

  3. Strain the juice.

  4. Sweeten the juice to taste.

  5. Add corn-flour or ground rice as needed for thickening.

Set and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a damp mold.

  2. Let the mixture cool.

  3. Once cold, turn it out onto a glass dish.

  4. Serve with cream if desired.

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.

Explore the science

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. Red currant + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together309 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Corn + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,927 recipes

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

  3. Sugar + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together53,532 recipes

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

  4. Corn + sugartop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together7,168 recipes

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

  5. Red currant + corntop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

Sugar and lemon barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 53,532 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

Red currants
Provide the main tart flavor and the pectin-rich juice that gives the jam its body.
Raspberries
Add fragrant aroma and a sweeter, softer fruit flavor to the currant juice.
Corn-flour or ground rice
Thickens the strained juice so it holds its shape when cooled and turned out.
Sugar
Sweetens the juice and balances the tartness of the currants.

The step that matters

Add the corn-flour or ground rice as needed for thickening. Starch thickens only when heated in liquid and then cooled, so the mixture must be cooked enough to thicken before it is poured into the mold. Too little starch leaves it runny and it will not turn out cleanly.

Swap the red currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (corn, sugar, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Red currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against corn, sugar, lemon. 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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