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Apricot , Apple, or Peach Au Riz

A sweet rice dessert stewed with apricots, apples, or peaches in syrup and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Cream and syrup are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 1,964 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Apricot , Apple, or Peach Au Riz

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Stew the rice in water until tender.

  2. Mix in some cream until stiff.

Prepare the fruit

  1. Peel the apricots, apples, or peaches and remove the cores or stones.

  2. Stew the fruits in Syrup (No. 400) until soft.

Assemble

  1. Fill small cups with rice about three-quarters full.

  2. Layer the prepared fruits over the rice.

  3. Add 1 tablespoon of apricot pulp over the apples and apricots, and thick syrup over the peaches.

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. Cream + syruptop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,964 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Rice + apricottop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together353 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-undecalactone (peach, sweet).

  3. Apricot + syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together451 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Rice + creamtop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  5. Cream + apricottop 25% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,116 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the bulk of the pudding, giving it a soft, tender body when stewed.
Cream
Adds richness and a light, airy texture when whipped until stiff.
Apricots, apples, or peaches
Provide fruit flavour and a soft, tender layer over the rice.
Syrup (no. 400)
Sweetens the fruit and keeps it moist while it stews until soft.
Apricot pulp
Adds concentrated apricot flavour and fruity moisture to the top layer.

Swap the apricot

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Apricotthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, cream, syrup. 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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