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Rice and Cream

A sweet dessert of cooked rice mixed with milk, cream, sugar, sherry, and garnished with glace cherries.

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 and Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Simmer the rice in the milk until tender.

  2. Drain the rice well on a sieve and let it cool.

Combine and serve

  1. Whip the cream until stiff.

  2. Stir the cooled rice into the whipped cream.

  3. Add the sherry and sugar, and mix well.

  4. Serve in custard glasses garnished with strips of cherries.

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

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

  3. Milk + sherrytop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,479 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3,5-trimethylpyrazine (cocoa, roasted).

  4. Rice + sherrytop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together572 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-methoxy-4-vinylphenol (clove, smoky).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Carolina rice
Provides the body and bulk of the dish as it softens in the milk.
Milk
Cooks into the rice, making it tender and creamy as it absorbs the liquid.
Cream
Whipped to hold air, giving a light, rich texture and fat to the dish.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the richness of the cream and milk.

The step that matters

Let the rice cool before folding it into the cream. Warm rice would soften and deflate the whipped cream, which is trapped air and fat held in a fragile structure. Cooling the rice keeps the mixture light and stiff.

“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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