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Ground Rice Cheesecakes

A baked dessert made with ground rice, raisins, sugar, egg, milk, candied peel, currants, lemon rind, and pastry.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 9 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk 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 Cheesecakes

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.

Prepare

  1. Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).

  2. Line small patty tins with pastry.

Make the filling

  1. Mix the ground rice with 2 tablespoons of milk.

  2. Boil the remaining milk and add it to the rice mixture, then boil for 4 to 5 minutes.

  3. Beat the egg and combine it with the milk and rice mixture, adding all other ingredients.

Bake

  1. Fill each patty case three-quarters full and bake for 10 to 15 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.

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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. Rice + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,374 recipes

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

  2. Raisin + curranttop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together6,180 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

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

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

  4. Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Forms the thick body of the filling as it absorbs liquid and cooks.
Egg
Binds the filling and helps it set firm when baked.
Milk
Provides moisture and softness, cooking the rice into a creamy base.
Castor sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the filling brown lightly in the oven.

The step that matters

Boil the milk and rice mixture for 4 to 5 minutes. Boiling gelatinises the starch in the ground rice so the mixture thickens. If it is undercooked, the filling stays thin and may not hold its shape when baked in the pastry.

Swap the currant

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rice, raisin, sugar, egg, milk, lemon):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Figfits better
  3. Coconutfits better
  4. Currantthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, raisin, sugar, egg, milk, lemon. 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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