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Arroce Doce

A sweet rice pudding made with Carolina rice, milk, sugar, blanched almonds, and cinnamon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Almond and cinnamon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,514 recipes. Both carry eucalyptol, which smells eucalyptus, herbal. The science ↓

Arroce Doce

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wipe the rice with a dry cloth and pick it carefully.

Cook

  1. Combine the rice and milk in a pot and simmer gently for 30 minutes.

  2. Add the sugar and boil until the rice is dry and tender.

  3. Stir in the pounded almonds when the rice is nearly done.

Serve

  1. Transfer the rice to shallow dishes and smooth the surface.

  2. Sift powdered cinnamon over the top before serving cold.

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. Almond + cinnamontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,514 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

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

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Rice + almondtop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,456 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  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 bulk of the dish and softens into a tender, starchy body as it simmers.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to provide moisture and a creamy texture.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the rice set into a firm, sliceable texture when cold.
Blanched almonds
Add nutty flavour and a soft, fatty richness to the pudding.

The step that matters

Boil until the rice is dry and tender. Rice absorbs milk and sugar as it cooks, and the starch thickens the liquid. Stopping too early leaves the dish wet and loose, while overcooking can scorch the milk sugars on the base of the pot.

“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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