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Rice and Milk

A simple dish of rice cooked in milk, simmered until thick.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 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 ↓

Rice and Milk

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the rice well in several waters.

Cook

  1. Put the rice and milk into a closely-covered saucepan.

  2. Set the saucepan over low heat.

  3. When it boils, remove it from the heat.

  4. Let it stand until cold.

  5. Simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

  6. Serve in a tureen.

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).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that thickens the milk as it cooks and softens into a creamy texture.
Milk
Liquid that the rice absorbs and cooks in, providing the body and sweetness of the pudding.

The step that matters

Simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Milk can scorch or boil over on the bottom of a pan, and the rice needs steady low heat to absorb liquid and soften evenly. A tightly covered pan helps hold moisture so the pudding thickens gently rather than drying out or sticking.

“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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