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Strawberry Pyramid

A layered dessert of cooked rice and strawberries, sweetened with sugar and topped with whipped cream or milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 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 ↓

Strawberry Pyramid

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice in plenty of water for about 20 minutes until soft.

  2. Drain the rice.

Layer and serve

  1. Spread a layer of rice on a serving dish.

  2. Add a layer of strawberries.

  3. Sprinkle lightly with sugar.

  4. Continue layering with smaller amounts of rice and sweetened strawberries until all ingredients are used.

  5. Top with a final sprinkle of sugar.

  6. Serve with whipped cream or milk.

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

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

  2. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

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

Rice
Forms the bulk of the pyramid and gives it a soft, starchy body once cooked.
Strawberries
Add fruity flavour and moisture that soaks into the layers.
Sugar
Sweetens the strawberries and rice layers and draws out fruit juice.

The step that matters

Drain the rice. Rice cooked in excess water holds surface water that dilutes the fruit and makes the layers soggy. Draining well keeps the pyramid firm enough to hold its shape.

“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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