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Whole Rice Blanc Icange

A sweet rice pudding flavored with lemon peel, cinnamon, and sugar, served with jam or custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,137 recipes. Both carry guaiacol, which smells smoky, sweet. The science ↓

Whole Rice Blanc Icange

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice pudding

  1. Combine the rice and sweet milk in a saucepan.

  2. Boil slowly for a long time, adding lemon peel and cinnamon for flavor.

  3. Sweeten to taste.

Mold and cook

  1. Pour the mixture into a mold and secure it tightly.

  2. Boil the mold in a saucepan of water for 30 minutes, ensuring no water enters the mold.

Unmold and serve

  1. Once cooled, unmold onto a dish.

  2. Serve with jam, custard, or cream.

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 + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  2. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Whole rice
Provides the starchy body that thickens the milk into a pudding.
Sweet milk
Forms the liquid base that the rice slowly absorbs and softens in.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and adds to its flavor.

The step that matters

Keep water out of the mold while boiling. If water enters the mold it dilutes the mixture and can make the pudding watery and loose. A tight seal keeps the moisture in and lets the rice set gently in the steam-heated water bath.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Raisinfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, cinnamon, sugar, cream. 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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