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Empress Rice Pudding

A sweet rice pudding made with rice, milk, butter, eggs, and jam, baked in a greased dish.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 9,645 recipes. Both carry trans-2-nonenal, which smells cardboard, fatty. The science ↓

Empress Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Boil the rice in milk until soft, without sugar, until no spare liquid remains.

  2. Grease a deep dish and layer the rice an inch thick.

Layer and finish

  1. Spread a layer of jam over the rice.

  2. Add more rice on top of the jam.

  3. Repeat spreading jam and adding rice until the dish is full, ending with a layer of rice on top.

  4. Beat the butter and eggs into the warm rice.

  5. Let the mixture cool before serving.

Optional additions

  1. Optionally, flavor with spice or lemon peel.

  2. Optionally, use a layer of short or flaky pastry underneath for a better dish.

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 + buttertop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

  2. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

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

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

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 pudding, softening as it absorbs milk while cooking.
Eggs
Bind the rice together and help the pudding set as it cools.
Butter
Adds richness and a smoother, softer texture to the rice.
Jam
Adds sweetness and fruity flavor between the layers of rice.

The step that matters

Beat the butter and eggs into the warm rice. The rice should be warm so the butter melts and spreads evenly. Eggs added to a very hot mixture can scramble, so they should be blended in gently and evenly.

“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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