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Iced Rice Pudding, a LA Cintra

A chilled custard made from rice, milk, cream, vanilla, sugar, salt, and egg yolks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Iced Rice Pudding, a LA Cintra

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash and parboil the rice.

Make the custard

  1. In a saucepan, combine the rice, milk, cream, vanilla, sugar, and salt.

  2. Simmer gently until the rice is almost dissolved, stirring occasionally.

  3. While still boiling, add the egg yolks and stir well for several minutes to mix and smooth the rice.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the rice custard as previously directed.

  2. Transfer the frozen custard to a plain mold.

  3. Cover the mold with a lid.

  4. Immerse the mold in ice.

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. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

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

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

  3. Vanilla + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

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

  4. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Rice + vanillatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,352 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Vanilla and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Provides the body and starch that thicken the pudding as it simmers.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice softens and cooks in.
Cream
Adds fat for a richer, smoother texture in the frozen pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and keeps the frozen texture softer.
Egg yolks
Enriches and thickens the custard, giving it a smooth, creamy body.

The step that matters

Adding the egg yolks while still boiling. Egg yolks thicken through gentle heat, and stirring them in while the mixture is hot and well mixed for several minutes helps them blend smoothly. Heat applied too unevenly can cause them to curdle or form lumps.

“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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