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Rice Flummery

Rice Flummery is a sweet rice pudding made with rice flour, milk, sugar, cinnamon, and lemon peel.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cinnamon 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

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Make the flummery

  1. Mix the rice flour with a little cold milk.

  2. Pour boiling milk flavored with cinnamon and lemon peel over the rice flour mixture.

  3. Sweeten with loaf sugar to taste.

  4. Gently boil while stirring until thickened.

Set and serve

  1. Pour into a mold and let it cool.

  2. Serve on a glass dish and garnish with raspberry preserve.

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. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Cinnamon + lemontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Flour + cinnamontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together17,341 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour
Its starch swells and thickens the milk as it heats.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that sets into a soft, creamy body.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to balance the cinnamon and lemon flavor.

The step that matters

Gently boil while stirring until thickened. Rice starch only thickens once it is heated in liquid. Stirring throughout prevents lumps and scorching on the base of the pan, so the mixture thickens evenly before it goes into the mold.

Swap the lemon

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

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

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