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Rice Timbale with Candied Citron-peel

A baked rice dish with milk, butter, sugar, lemon rind, candied citron peel, macaroons, eggs, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 11 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Rice Timbale with Candied Citron-peel

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

The book says “a quick oven”. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps is the modern equivalent, not the book's own figure.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

Make the batter

  1. In a large bowl, combine rice, milk, butter, powdered sugar, salt, lemon rind, candied citron peel, crushed macaroons, and egg yolks. Mix well, then gently fold in the whipped egg whites and whipped cream.

Bake and serve

  1. Pour the mixture into a baking dish and bake for 1.5 hours.

  2. Turn out the timbale when ready and serve immediately.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the body of the timbale, giving it bulk and a soft, starchy texture.
Egg yolks
Enrich the mixture and help it set into a firm, custard-like structure when baked.
Egg whites
Whipped and folded in, they add air and lightness so the timbale rises and stays tender.
Milk
Provides moisture and cooks the rice gently into a creamy, tender base.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, tender crumb.
Powdered sugar
Sweetens the timbale and helps brown the surface as it bakes.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped egg whites. Egg whites hold air only when whipped and folded in gently. Stirring them vigorously deflates the foam, so the timbale bakes denser and rises less.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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