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To Make Rice Cheesecake

A cheesecake made with boiled rice, cinnamon, butter, eggs, sugar, cream, nutmeg, and brandy, baked in a pastry crust.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

To Make Rice Cheesecake

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the rice with the cinnamon until soft, then drain it.

  2. Mash the rice with the butter using the back of a spoon.

Make the filling and bake

  1. Add the eggs, sugar, cream, grated nutmeg, and ratafia or brandy, and mix well.

  2. Pour the mixture into tins lined with pastry.

  3. Bake until set and golden.

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. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

  4. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked and mashed to give the cheesecake its body and a soft, creamy texture.
Butter
Mashed into the rice to add richness and fat, softening the filling's texture.
Eggs
Set during baking to give the filling its structure.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the filling brown lightly as it bakes.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the filling smooth and tender.

The step that matters

Bake until set and golden. Eggs set as their proteins coagulate with heat. Pulling the tins too early leaves a loose centre, while overbaking can make the filling dry and cracked.

“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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