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Chinese Rice Pudding

A sweet pudding made from boiled rice, sugar, gelatin, salt, and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 26% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 8,744 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Chinese Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the gelatine

  1. Soak the gelatine in ½ cup water.

  2. Dissolve the gelatine in 1 cup hot water.

Combine and set

  1. In a bowl, combine the dissolved gelatine, rice, sugar, and salt.

  2. Allow the mixture to cool.

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 + sugartop 26% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together8,744 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Gelatine
Sets the liquid into a firm, sliceable pudding as it cools.
Boiled rice
Provides the bulk and body of the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness to the pudding.

The step that matters

Dissolving the gelatine fully. Gelatine only sets properly when it is completely dissolved in hot liquid. Undissolved granules or lumps leave weak or uneven spots in the set pudding, so the gelatine should be fully melted before it is combined with the other ingredients.

“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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