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Rice Bread

Rice Bread is a simple mixture of cooked rice, milk, optional laurel leaves, and almond or vanilla extract, chilled to set.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,456 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rice Bread

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the rice in water for 10 to 15 minutes until tender.

  2. In a separate pot, heat the milk and steep the laurel leaves for flavor, then remove them.

  3. Add the cooked rice to the milk and stir in the almond or vanilla extract.

  4. Pour the mixture into a quart mold and refrigerate overnight to firm up.

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 + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

  3. Rice + laureltop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together832 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Milk + almondtop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,800 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Milk + laureltop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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 dish, and its starch thickens and firms as it chills.
Milk
Provides moisture and richness, becoming the creamy base that sets as it cools.

Swap the almond

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, laurel):

  1. Beansfits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Walnutfits better
  4. Almondthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, laurel. 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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