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Apple and Rice

A dish of cooked apples served with rice, butter, milk, lemon rind, sugar, and topped with cream or custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Apple and Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the apples

  1. Peel and cut the apple in half, removing the core.

Cook the apples

  1. In an enamelled stewpan, melt the butter over low heat.

  2. Add the apple halves, sprinkle with crushed sugar, and add grated lemon rind.

  3. Cook until the apples are tender.

Cook the rice and serve

  1. Meanwhile, cook the rice in the milk until soft.

  2. Serve the apples with the rice and top with cream or boiled 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. Butter + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

  3. Butter + creamtop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,516 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  5. Apple + milktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,104 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Apple
Forms the soft, tender fruit base that the dish is built around.
Rice
Thickens the milk as it cooks, giving the dish a soft, creamy body.
Milk
Cooks the rice into a soft, creamy texture and adds richness.
Butter
Adds fat for richness and helps the apples soften in the pan.
Crushed loaf sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the apple halves brown lightly as they cook.

The step that matters

Cook the apples until tender. Cooking over low heat softens the apple flesh gradually without breaking it down, so the halves hold their shape while becoming tender all the way through.

Swap the lemon

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (apple, rice, butter, milk, sugar, cream):

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

Fit is the average pairing score against apple, rice, butter, milk, sugar, cream. 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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