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Rice Flummery

Rice Flummery is a sweet rice dessert made with milk, ground rice, almonds, rose water, and sweetened with sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 6% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,456 recipes. Both carry 2,4-decadienal, which smells seaweed. The science ↓

Rice Flummery

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice

  1. Boil the ground rice in milk until thick, stirring constantly.

  2. Add the pounded almonds and rose water, then sweeten to taste.

  3. Pour the mixture into a mold and let it cool completely.

Serve

  1. Once cold, turn it out and decorate with sweet almond straws.

  2. Serve with thick cream mixed with a little white wine and sugar.

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 + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

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

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

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

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

  4. Almond + rosetop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,465 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. White wine + winetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together14 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the milk as it boils, giving the flummery its set, firm body.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice thickens into a smooth, soft set.
Bitter almonds
Add a deep, nutty aroma that flavours the flummery.
Rose water
Adds a floral aroma to the flummery.

The step that matters

Stirring while the rice boils. Ground rice settles and scorches on the bottom of the pan if left unstirred, and the starch must be stirred as it thickens to form a smooth, lump-free set.

“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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