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Rice Cream

A chilled gelatinized rice dessert made with milk, lemon rind, gelatin, sugar, and whipped cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 10 ingredients
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Rice Cream

Why it works: Lemon and orange match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 10,634 recipes. Both carry 3-hexenal, which smells apple, fruity. The science ↓

Rice Cream

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the rice

  1. Boil the rice in plenty of water for 10 minutes, then drain.

  2. Add milk and lemon rind, and cook in a double boiler for 45 minutes.

Make the cream

  1. Remove the lemon peel, then add gelatine (soaked in cold water), sugar, and salt.

  2. Place the mixture in a pan of cold water and stir until chilled.

  3. Gently fold in the whipped cream without breaking the froth.

  4. Pour into cups or a large mold and refrigerate until firm.

Serve

  1. Serve with strawberries and whipped cream or golden orange jelly.

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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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. Lemon + orangetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together10,634 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

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

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

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

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

  4. Rice + lemontop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,366 recipes

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

  5. Rice + orangetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-nonadienal (fatty, green).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked soft and blended into the dish, giving the cream its body and bulk.
Milk
Supplies the liquid base and dairy richness as it cooks slowly with the rice.
Gelatine
Sets the chilled mixture so it holds its shape when refrigerated until firm.
Whipped cream
Adds fat and airy lightness, folded in to keep the mixture soft and fluffy.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and balances the mild, plain flavour of the rice and milk.

The step that matters

Folding in the whipped cream. Whipped cream is a foam held up by trapped air. Stirring vigorously deflates it and makes the dessert dense, so fold gently, and only once the base is cold enough to hold the air but not yet set.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits about as well
  3. Orangethe original
  4. Figfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, lemon, 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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