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To Make Rice Cheesecakes

A baked dessert made from rice, butter, eggs, sugar, cream, nutmeg, and a spirit, set in tins.

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 Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the filling

  1. Boil the rice with the cinnamon until soft, then drain through a sieve.

  2. Crush the drained rice with the back of a spoon and mix in the butter.

  3. Add the eggs, sugar, cream, grated nutmeg, and ratafia water or brandy.

Bake

  1. Line tins with the paste and pour the mixture into them.

  2. Bake until set.

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
Forms the bulk of the filling and, once cooked and crushed, gives a soft, tender body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, giving the filling a smooth, tender texture.
Eggs
Set on baking to bind the filling and give the cheesecake its firm structure.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly as it bakes.
Cream
Adds moisture and richness, keeping the baked filling soft and creamy.

The step that matters

Bake until set. Eggs set as their proteins coagulate with heat. Underbaking leaves a runny centre, while overbaking makes the filling dry and grainy and can cause it to curdle or crack.

“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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