Why it works: Rice and raisin work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 565 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
Rice-puddinq
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the rice
Wash the rice thoroughly.
In a large pot, bring 3 quarts of water to a boil.
Add 1 teaspoon of salt and the washed rice to the boiling water.
Cook and serve
Boil for 20 minutes until the rice is tender.
Drain the rice in a sieve.
Serve with sauce or use the cooking water to make soup.
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.
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Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together565 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
What each ingredient does
- Rice
- Its starch softens and swells during boiling, giving the pudding its body and tender texture.
The step that matters
Boil for 20 minutes until the rice is tender. Rice keeps absorbing water and softening while it cooks. Stopping too early leaves it firm, and cooking too long makes it mushy, so check the texture near the end of the time.
“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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