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Rice and Apple Pudding

A baked pudding of apples, rice, milk, eggs, sugar, wine, and spices, served with sugar and wine sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients
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Why it works: Apple and clove are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,774 recipes. Both carry ethyl octanoate, which smells fruity, wine. The science ↓

Rice and Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pulp the apples and dry them over the fire to give a grilled taste.

  2. Prepare the rice with milk, lemon peel, and salt.

Make the mixture

  1. In a bowl, mix the rice with the eggs, sugar, wine, and spices.

  2. Add minced citron, orange peel, almonds, or currants if desired.

Bake and serve

  1. Line a mold with the mixture, bake it, and serve with sugar on top and a wine sauce.

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.

Explore the science

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. Apple + clovetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,774 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).

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

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

  3. Lemon + clovetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together8,150 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Apple + winetop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

  5. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apples
Pulped and dried apples add body and a grilled, concentrated flavour to the pudding.
Rice
Cooked rice forms the bulk of the pudding and gives it a soft, tender body.
Eggs
Eggs bind the mixture and set during baking to give the pudding its structure.
Milk
Milk supplies moisture and richness, helping the rice soften and the custard-like texture form.
Sugar
Sugar adds sweetness and helps with browning on the surface.

The step that matters

Baking the lined mold. Eggs set as they heat, so baking too hot or too long can make the pudding dry, grainy, or curdled. Gentle, even heat keeps it smooth and moist.

Swap the clove

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

  1. Cinnamonfits better
  2. Nutmegfits better
  3. Gingerfits better
  4. Clovethe original

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