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Ground Rice Pudding

A sweet pudding made from ground rice, milk, butter, eggs, and almonds, baked in a dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and almond match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Ground Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice mixture

  1. Mix 1 pint of milk with 6 ounces of ground rice in a bowl.

  2. Heat another pint of milk with a little cinnamon in a saucepan until it boils.

  3. Gradually pour in the rice mixture while stirring continuously for a few minutes.

  4. Remove from heat.

  5. Stir in 2 ounces of butter.

Add eggs and bake

  1. Once nearly cool, beat 4 eggs.

  2. Mix in sugar, bitter almonds, and sweet almonds.

  3. Pour the mixture into a baking dish.

  4. Bake with or without pastry.

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. Cinnamon + almondtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Provides the starch that thickens the milk into a creamy, set pudding.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice thickens and the eggs set into custard.
Eggs
Set during baking to bind the pudding and add richness and structure.
Butter
Adds fat for a smoother texture and richer flavour.
Bitter almonds
Add a distinct nutty, aromatic flavour to the pudding.

The step that matters

Gradually pour in the rice mixture while stirring. Adding the rice mixture slowly while stirring continuously keeps the starch dispersed, so it thickens evenly instead of forming lumps.

“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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