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A Common Rice Pudding

A simple rice pudding made by boiling rice and simmering with milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

A Common Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Rinse the rice in cold water.

  2. Boil the rice gently for 8 to 10 minutes.

  3. Drain the rice in a sieve or strainer.

Make the pudding

  1. In a clean saucepan, combine the drained rice with 1 quart of milk.

  2. Stew the mixture without covering the saucepan.

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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 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
Provides the starch and body that thickens the pudding as it stews.
Milk
Supplies the liquid that the rice absorbs and the richness that gives the pudding its creamy texture.

The step that matters

Stew the mixture without covering the saucepan. Leaving the pan uncovered lets steam escape so the milk gradually reduces and thickens. Covering it can trap moisture and make the pudding watery, while stewing too hard can scorch the milk on the bottom.

“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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