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Ground Rice Pudding

A simple pudding made from ground rice, condensed milk, water, sugar, and egg.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Condensed milk and sugar work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 804 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Ground Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Mix the ground rice with the cold condensed milk.

  2. In a saucepan, bring boiling water and add sugar.

  3. Pour in the rice mixture and stir for about 20 minutes.

  4. Cool slightly, then beat in the egg.

Serve

  1. Serve hot or cold, or bake in a dish.

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. Condensed milk + sugartop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together804 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  3. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

  4. Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,350 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  5. Rice + condensed milktop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together57 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Its starch swells and thickens the liquid as it heats, giving the pudding body.
Condensed milk
Adds sweetness and a creamy, rich texture.
Egg
Sets when heated and binds the pudding, adding richness and firmness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the flavour of the milk.

The step that matters

Cool slightly, then beat in the egg. Egg proteins set at heat, so adding it to a very hot mixture can scramble it into lumps. Cooling slightly first lets the egg blend smoothly into the thickened pudding.

“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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