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Rice Paste for Relishing Things

A rice paste made with onion, water, milk, and egg, used to coat seasoned chops.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice Paste for Relishing Things

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Clean the rice and place it in a saucepan with the onion, water, and milk.

  2. Simmer until the rice swells.

Assemble

  1. Place seasoned chops in a dish and cover them with the rice.

  2. Add an egg to the rice for better adherence.

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

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

  2. Rice + oniontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together10,433 recipes

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

  3. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  4. Onion + milktop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together13,418 recipes

    Shared aroma: hexanal (green, grassy).

  5. Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,350 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Its starch swells and thickens with liquid, forming the body of the paste.
Egg
Binds the rice mixture and helps it stick to the chops.
Milk
Adds moisture and richness, softening the texture of the rice.
Onion
Contributes savory aroma and flavor to the cooked rice.

The step that matters

Simmering the rice until it swells. Rice starch absorbs liquid and swells as it heats. Too little liquid or too much heat can scorch the bottom, while overcooking turns the grains gluey and can make the paste too stiff or too loose.

Swap the onion

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

  1. Asparagusfits better
  2. Potatofits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Onionthe original

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