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Cream-ice, with Rice

A chilled dessert made from rice, almond milk, sugar, and vanilla, then frozen with orange and lemon zest.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Orange and lemon match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Cream-ice, with Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Boil the rice in plenty of water until tender, then drain it.

  2. Place the rice in a bowl, moisten it with 1½ cups of vanilla-flavored syrup, and let it macerate for 4 hours.

Make the cream

  1. Prepare the cream with almond milk, sugar, and eggs, boil it, then cool it in another bowl.

  2. Add a little orange zest to the cooled cream and strain it through a sieve.

Freeze and finish

  1. Let the mixture freeze until thickened and firm, then add the drained rice and finish freezing.

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. Orange + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  2. Almond + vanillatop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,961 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  3. Milk + vanillatop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together19,187 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl caproate (fruity, apple peel).

  4. Almond + orangetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,125 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Orange + vanillatop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,371 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

Rice
Provides a chewy, grainy texture that contrasts with the smooth frozen cream.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and lowers the freezing point, keeping the ice cream softer.
Milk
Adds richness and creaminess through its milk fat and solids.
Almond milk
Adds body and a nutty, delicate flavor to the cream base.
Vanilla syrup
Adds sweetness and vanilla aroma, and moistens the rice before freezing.
Orange zest
Adds a bright citrus aroma to the cream.

The step that matters

Adding the drained rice after partial freezing. Freezing the base until thickened and firm first helps keep the rice evenly suspended instead of sinking, and stops it from clumping in a fully liquid mixture.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (milk, almond, sugar, rice, orange, vanilla, syrup):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against milk, almond, sugar, rice, orange, vanilla, 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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