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Souffle of Bice and Apple

A baked rice and apple souffle made with Carolina rice, milk, lemon peel, cinnamon, egg whites, apple marmalade, and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Souffle of Bice and Apple

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Blanch the rice.

  2. Strain the rice.

  3. Boil the rice in milk with lemon peel and cinnamon until dry.

  4. Cool the rice.

Build the soufflé

  1. Form a 3-inch high rim around a baking dish.

  2. Egg the rim to make it stick.

  3. Egg the rice all over.

  4. Fill the dish halfway with apple marmalade.

  5. Beat the egg whites to a fine froth.

  6. Spread the froth over the marmalade.

  7. Sift fine sugar over the top.

Bake

  1. Bake in a warm oven until it is beautifully colored.

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. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

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

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

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

  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

Carolina rice
Forms the thick, starchy base that gives the soufflé its body.
Milk
Cooks into the rice, adding moisture and creaminess to the base.
Egg whites
Whipped to a froth, they trap air and lift the top during baking.
Apple marmalade
Adds fruit sweetness and moisture beneath the egg white layer.
Fine sugar
Sweetens the top and helps it brown in the oven.

The step that matters

Beat the egg whites to a fine froth. Egg whites hold air only when beaten to a stable foam without over-whipping. Under-beaten whites stay flat, while over-beaten whites turn grainy and collapse, so the soufflé will not rise evenly.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Blueberryfits better
  4. Applethe original

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