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Rice and Apple Pudding

A steamed pudding made from rice, apples, milk, sugar, lemon, and egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 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 ↓

Rice and Apple Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the pudding

  1. Boil the rice with the milk.

  2. Add the apple pulp, sugar, and essence of lemon.

  3. Whisk the egg whites and fold them into the mixture.

  4. Pour into a well-buttered mold.

Steam and serve

  1. Steam in a saucepan of boiling water for 1 hour.

  2. Serve cold with custard.

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.

Explore the science

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. Milk + appletop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  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 + appletop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,311 recipes

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

  5. Apple + lemontop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,551 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the pudding its body and firm, sliceable texture.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to form a creamy base and adds moisture to the pudding.
Apple pulp
Adds moisture, natural sweetness and fruity flavour to the pudding.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and balances the tartness of the apples.
Egg whites
Whipped and folded in, they trap air and help the pudding set light and set firm.

The step that matters

Folding in the egg whites. Whisked egg whites hold air bubbles that give lightness. Folding gently keeps those bubbles intact; stirring vigorously deflates them, leaving a denser pudding.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

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