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Rice Flummery

Rice Flummery is a sweet pudding made from milk, lemon peel, cinnamon, rice flour, sugar, and peach water or crushed almond.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and rice match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Rice Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

Make the flummery

  1. In a pot, boil the new milk with lemon peel and cinnamon.

  2. Mix rice flour with a little cold milk to create a thick paste.

  3. Add the rice flour mixture to the boiling milk, stirring constantly to prevent burning.

  4. Sweeten to taste and add peach water or crushed almond.

  5. Pour into a mold or bowl and remove the spices.

Cool and serve

  1. Let it cool, then turn out onto a dish and serve with cream, milk, or custard.

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. Cinnamon + ricetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cinnamon + peachtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together625 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  3. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

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

  4. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  5. Cinnamon + flourtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Thickens the milk into a smooth, set pudding as its starch swells when heated.
New milk
Forms the body of the pudding and provides creaminess and moisture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the milk and flavourings.
Peach water
Adds a delicate fruity aroma to the pudding.

The step that matters

Adding the rice flour mixture to the boiling milk. Stirring constantly keeps the starch dispersed so it thickens evenly instead of clumping, and lowers the risk of the milk scorching on the bottom of the pot.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, cinnamon, rice, flour, sugar, peach):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Blueberryfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, cinnamon, rice, flour, sugar, peach. 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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