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Cloves' Rice

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cumin and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,082 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Cloves' Rice

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Soak the rice overnight.

  2. Add the dried chillies to the rice.

  3. Dissolve saffron in some water and boil briskly.

  4. Cook the meat until done, then strain the broth.

  5. In a pot, combine the broth with ghee, cumin seeds, salt, garlic, and chopped mint.

  6. Mix everything together and bring to a boil before serving.

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. Cumin + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,082 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Saffron + cumintop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together223 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Rice + saffrontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together629 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  4. Cumin + clovetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,306 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

  5. Saffron + clovetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together455 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

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

Swap the mint

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, saffron, ghee, cumin, clove, garlic):

  1. Cardamomfits better
  2. Turmericfits better
  3. Cinnamonfits better
  4. Mintthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, saffron, ghee, cumin, clove, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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