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Rice Souffle'.

A baked rice soufflé with candied orange peel, apples, and a frothy egg white topping.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Rice Souffle'.

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice base

  1. Boil the rice in milk until tender.

  2. Add the egg yolks, sugar, and candied orange peel, then boil again.

  3. Form a wall with the rice mixture around the edge of a dish.

Prepare the apples

  1. Peel and core the apples, then stew them in lemon juice and sugar.

  2. Fill the apple cores with candied sweetmeats.

  3. Place the apples in the center of the rice wall.

Top and harden

  1. Beat the egg whites to a froth and mix in sifted sugar.

  2. Cover the apples with the egg white mixture.

  3. Harden in a cool oven.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  3. Orange + appletop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,230 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk, it thickens into a soft base that holds the dish's shape.
Egg yolks
Enrich the rice mixture, adding richness and helping it set when heated.
Egg whites
Beaten to a froth, they form a light foam that cooks into the topping.
Apples
Stewed until tender, they provide the fruit centre and soft texture.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to create a creamy, tender base.

The step that matters

Harden in a cool oven. Egg white foam can brown or collapse if heated too fast. A cool oven sets the topping gently and dries it without overbrowning, so the soufflé keeps its light structure.

Swap the apple

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, milk, egg, sugar, orange, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, egg, sugar, orange, lemon. 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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