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Iced Rice Pudding

A chilled rice pudding made with rice, milk, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and vanilla are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 19,187 recipes. Both carry ethyl caproate, which smells fruity, apple peel. The science ↓

Iced Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Make the base

  1. Wash the rice and cook it in a double boiler with the hot milk until soft, then press through a sieve.

  2. In a separate bowl, cook the egg yolks, sugar, and milk mixture until it thickens into a soft custard; cool and add vanilla.

Freeze and serve

  1. Freeze the mixture until it is mushy, then remove the whisk, beat well, and fold in the whipped cream.

  2. Fill a melon mold with the mixture, pack it in ice and salt, and let it stand for 2 to 3 hours.

  3. Unmold onto a serving dish and garnish with fresh fruit or fruit compote.

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

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

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

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

  3. Sugar + vanillatop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together35,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  5. Rice + vanillatop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,352 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

Sugar and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 35,032 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
Cooked until soft and pressed through a sieve, it gives the pudding a smooth, creamy body.
Egg yolks
Cooked into a custard, they thicken the mixture and add richness.
Whipped cream
Folded in before freezing, it adds lightness and a creamy texture.
Sugar
Sweetens the custard and lowers the freezing point, keeping the dessert soft.

The step that matters

Freezing until mushy before folding in the cream. Freezing until partly set but still mushy, then beating well, breaks up ice crystals and keeps the texture smooth. Letting it freeze solid before beating leaves a grainy, icy result, and the whipped cream folds in more evenly when the base is soft.

“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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