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Boiled Rice Pudding. No. 1

A sweet pudding made from boiled rice, sugar, eggs, butter, and lemon essence, baked in a mold and boiled.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,366 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Boiled Rice Pudding. No. 1

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Combine rice, sugar, eggs, baking soda, and salt in a bowl; beat until light and white.

  2. Cream the butter and add it to the mixture along with the lemon essence; beat for 5 minutes.

Boil and serve

  1. Butter a mold and pour the pudding mixture into it.

  2. Boil the pudding in water for 2 hours.

  3. Serve with sweet fruit 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.

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

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

  2. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  4. Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Set the pudding and add structure and richness as they cook.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, smooth texture to the mixture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the mixture become light when beaten.
Cold boiled rice
Forms the body of the pudding and gives it its substance.
Baking soda
Helps the mixture lighten and rise slightly during beating and cooking.

The step that matters

Boil the pudding in water for 2 hours. The mold must be sealed and the water kept steadily simmering so the pudding cooks through evenly without drying out or becoming watery.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar, egg, butter. 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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