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Another Way to Make Ground-rice Pudding

A pudding made from ground rice, milk, butter, eggs, orange‑flower water, nutmeg, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 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 ↓

Another Way to Make Ground-rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding base

  1. Mix the ground rice with the milk in a saucepan and stir until it boils.

  2. Add the butter and let the mixture cool slightly.

  3. Sweeten to taste.

Finish and cook

  1. Add the beaten egg yolks, egg whites, orange-flower water, and nutmeg.

  2. Bake in a Dutch oven or boil for 30 minutes.

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 + 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. Orange + nutmegtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,746 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Rice + nutmegtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  5. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Forms the body of the pudding and thickens it as it cooks with the milk.
Egg yolks
Enrich the custard and help it set into a soft, tender texture.
Egg whites
Add lightness and help the pudding rise and hold its structure while cooking.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, tender mouthfeel to the pudding.

The step that matters

Cooking the egg mixture gently. Eggs thicken as their proteins set. If the pudding is heated too hard or too long, the eggs can curdle or turn grainy, so it should set gently and evenly.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Orangethe original

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