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Rice Patties on Swedish Fritters

Rice patties topped with apricot or peach, lemon juice, sugar, whipped cream, served cold on Swedish fritters with marmalade.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Rice Patties on Swedish Fritters

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice cakes

  1. Form hot boiled rice into small cakes.

  2. Make a well in the center of each cake.

Fill and garnish

  1. Place half an apricot or peach, dipped in lemon juice and sprinkled with sugar, into the well.

  2. Garnish with whipped cream using a piping bag.

Serve

  1. Serve ice cold on Swedish fritters spread with apricot or peach marmalade.

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

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

  2. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

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

  3. Rice + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  4. Apricot + lemontop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,098 recipes

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

  5. Apricot + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,630 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Hot boiled rice
Forms the body of each patty, holding its shape when pressed into cakes.
Apricot or peach
Adds fruity sweetness and moisture to the centre of each patty.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity that brightens the fruit and helps keep its colour fresh.
Sugar
Sweetens the fruit and draws out some of its juice.
Whipped cream
Adds a rich, soft fat layer that contrasts with the cold fruit and rice.

The step that matters

Make a well in the center of each cake. The well must be deep enough to hold the fruit without the cake cracking or the filling spilling out. Cold rice firms up and is easier to shape, so a cake that has cooled slightly holds its well better than a hot one.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, apricot, 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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