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Rice Cheesecakes

A cheesecake made with cream, ground rice, butter, sugar, eggs, lemon rind, and puff pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 41,516 recipes. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Rice Cheesecakes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the filling

  1. In a saucepan, mix the cream or milk with the ground rice gradually, stirring until it thickens to a curd-like consistency.

  2. Pour the mixture into a basin and add the butter and sugar.

  3. Once cooled, mix in the eggs and grated lemon rind.

Bake

  1. Line pans with puff pastry, filling them only halfway to allow for rising.

  2. Bake in a moderate oven at 350°F (175°C) until set and golden.

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. Cream + buttertop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  3. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

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

  4. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the cream into a curd-like base that gives the filling body.
Eggs
Set when baked, giving the filling structure and a sliceable texture.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, contributing to a tender, smooth texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the filling and helps it brown lightly in the oven.
Cream or new milk
Provides the liquid base and moisture for the filling.

The step that matters

Fill the pans only halfway. Puff pastry rises considerably in the oven, so overfilling can cause the filling to spill over and bake unevenly. Leaving room lets the filling set within the pastry.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits about as well
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, rice, butter, sugar, 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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