Name: Rice Boiled with Raisins
Ingredients: 4 ounces of rice; ¼ pound of raisins

Why it works: Rice and raisin work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 565 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Rice Boiled with Raisins

Ingredients

4 ounces of rice
¼ pound of raisins

Directions

Prepare

Wash the rice in two or three waters and remove any discolored grains.
Mix the rice with the raisins.
Tie the mixture in a cloth or muslin bag.

Cook and serve

Boil in water until the rice is tender.
Serve warm.

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.

Rice + raisintop 12% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together565 recipes

Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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 dish and softens to a tender texture when boiled.
Raisins: Add sweetness and chewy moisture as they plump during cooking.

“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.