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Rice Border

Rice Border is a molded rice dish seasoned with pepper and salt, folded around minced meat.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and pepper are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,379 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Rice Border

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice.

  2. Boil the rice in the stock until tender and the stock is quite dry.

  3. Add pepper and salt to season.

  4. Stir in the egg yolks.

Shape and serve

  1. Dip a border mold in hot water, then press the rice mixture into it.

  2. Turn out the mold immediately.

  3. Fill the center with minced meat and serve.

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 + peppertop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,379 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

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

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

  3. Egg + peppertop 33% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together50,580 recipes

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

Egg and pepper barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 50,580 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 border and sets into a firm, sliceable shape as it absorbs the stock.
Stock
Cooks the rice through and gives it savory flavor as it is absorbed.
Egg yolks
Bind the rice mixture so it holds its molded shape when turned out.

The step that matters

Turn out the mold immediately. Cooked rice cools and firms quickly, and as it sets it sticks to the mold. Turning it out while still warm helps the border release cleanly and keep its shape.

“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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