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Stbambd Rice

A sweet rice pudding cooked with raisins, milk, butter, sugar, and salt, served warm with sweet cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Stbambd Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. In a large pot, combine rice, raisins, and milk.

  2. Steam the mixture for 2 hours without stirring.

Finish and serve

  1. Just before serving, add salt, butter, and sugar.

  2. Serve warm with sweet cream.

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

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

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that softens slowly in milk, thickening the pudding into a creamy body.
Milk
Liquid that cooks the rice and, with its proteins and sugars, gives the pudding its creamy richness.
Raisins
Plump up as they absorb liquid, adding moisture and concentrated sweetness in bites.
Butter
Adds fat that makes the pudding feel smoother and richer on the palate.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the mild, milky flavor of the pudding.

The step that matters

Steam without stirring. Leaving the mixture undisturbed lets the rice absorb liquid evenly and set into a creamy custard-like texture. Stirring breaks down the starch and can make the pudding gluey or uneven.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, butter, sugar, cream. 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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