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Ground Rice Pudding

A baked pudding made from milk, ground rice, egg, and jam.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and rice 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 ↓

Ground Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the pudding base

  1. Boil the milk.

  2. Stir the hot milk into the ground rice that has been smoothed with some cold milk.

  3. Cook the mixture gently for 6 minutes, stirring frequently.

  4. Remove from heat when it stops boiling.

  5. Add the well-whipped egg, mixing well.

Layer and bake

  1. Pour half of the mixture into a pie dish.

  2. Spread a layer of jam over the mixture.

  3. Pour the remaining pudding mixture over the jam.

  4. Bake in a 400°F (200°C) oven until lightly browned.

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. Milk + ricetop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Milk + eggtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88,785 recipes

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

  3. Rice + eggtop 28% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,350 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the milk into a set, creamy pudding as it cooks and absorbs liquid.
Milk
Forms the liquid base that the ground rice swells in and cooks into a custard-like texture.
Egg
Adds structure and richness, helping the pudding set and brown in the oven.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavour in a layer through the middle of the pudding.

The step that matters

Cook the mixture gently. Ground rice thickens as its starch swells in hot liquid. Gentle heat for the stated time, with frequent stirring, prevents scorching on the base and lumps. Removing it from heat once boiling stops keeps the mixture from overcooking before the egg is added.

“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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