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Boiled Rice Pudding

A simple boiled rice pudding served with sugar, cream, molasses, or butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Boiled Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pick and wash the rice.

  2. Tie the rice in a pudding bag, allowing room for it to swell.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the bag until the rice is soft.

  2. Serve with sugar and cream, or with molasses and butter.

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 body of the pudding as its starch softens and swells during boiling.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the finished pudding.
Cream
Adds richness and a smooth, soft texture to each serving.
Molasses
Adds deep, slightly bitter sweetness and a dark color.
Butter
Adds fat and richness that melts over the warm pudding.

The step that matters

Allow room for the rice to swell. Rice absorbs water and expands substantially as it cooks. If the bag is packed tightly, the grains cannot swell, the bag may burst, and the pudding can cook unevenly.

“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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