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Apple-and-rice Pudding

A baked pudding made with apples, rice, sugar, butter, eggs, and optional lemon.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,366 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Apple-and-rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the apples

  1. Boil the apples and sugar together until reduced to a smooth pulp, stirring often to prevent burning.

Mix and bake

  1. Mix in the boiled rice, butter, and eggs while the mixture is still warm.

  2. If the apples are very acidic, increase the sugar and add lemon rind or juice to taste.

  3. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes.

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. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  2. Apple + ricetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  3. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Apple + buttertop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,706 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Rice + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

What each ingredient does

Pudding apples
Break down into a smooth pulp that forms the body of the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the apples reduce to a thick, glossy pulp.
Boiled rice
Adds bulk and a soft, tender texture to the set pudding.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and a smooth, moist mouthfeel.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and set during baking to give the pudding structure.

The step that matters

Stirring the apples and sugar as they boil. Sugar-rich mixtures scorch quickly on the bottom of the pan. Frequent stirring spreads the heat evenly, prevents burnt flavour, and helps the apples break down into a smooth pulp.

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, sugar, rice, butter, egg):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Peachfits better
  3. Figfits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, sugar, rice, butter, egg. 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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