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Rice Snow

Rice Snow is a sweet custard made from sweet milk, rice flour, sugar, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice 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 Snow

Ingredients

Directions

Make the custard base

  1. Boil the milk in a saucepan.

  2. Stir in the rice flour or corn starch mixed with a little cold milk, then add the sugar.

  3. Let the mixture cool.

Whip and serve

  1. Whip the cooled mixture into the well-beaten egg whites a little at a time.

  2. Beat the mixture well again.

  3. Mold the mixture and serve with cream or fruit sauce.

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

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

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

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

  3. Milk + sugartop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together77,875 recipes

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

  4. Sugar + eggtop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together122,807 recipes

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

  5. Rice + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

Milk and sugar barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 77,875 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

What each ingredient does

Rice flour or corn starch
Thickens the hot milk into a soft, sliceable set mixture as it cools.
Egg whites
Whipped into the mixture to add lightness and an airy, snowy texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the flavor of the milk base.
Sweet milk
Forms the main liquid base that the starch thickens.

The step that matters

Whipping the cooled mixture into the egg whites. The mixture must be cool enough not to scramble or deflate the egg whites, and adding it a little at a time keeps the foam stable and evenly light.

“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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