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Apple and Rice Pudding

A baked rice pudding flavored with lemon peel, cinnamon, and topped with apple sauce and frothy egg whites.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Cinnamon and apple are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,598 recipes. Both carry methyl cinnamate, which smells strawberry. The science ↓

Apple and Rice Pudding

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 350°F (175°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Make the rice

  1. Combine rice, milk, sugar, lemon peel, and cinnamon in a pot and cook until the rice is soft.

  2. Fill a large high mold with the rice mixture.

Bake and serve

  1. Place the mold in a saucepan of water and bake in a 350°F (175°C) oven for 30 minutes.

  2. Turn the rice out onto a dish and fill the center with apple sauce.

  3. Beat the egg whites until frothy and spread over the apple sauce to create a top layer.

  4. Dust with powdered sugar and lightly brown the top before serving.

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.

  1. Cinnamon + appletop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,598 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

  2. Rice + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  3. Lemon + cinnamontop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7,950 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

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

  5. Milk + cinnamontop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,655 recipes

    Shared aroma: cuminaldehyde (Spicy, cumin).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Cooked in milk to form the soft, creamy body of the pudding.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to create a soft, custard-like texture.
Egg whites
Beaten to a foam and baked, setting into a light, airy top layer.
Apple sauce
Provides moisture and fruity sweetness in the center of the pudding.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the top layer brown.

The step that matters

Beating the egg whites until frothy. Egg whites must be beaten to a stable foam to hold their shape and set into a light top layer. Under-beaten whites stay runny and collapse, while the browning step depends on that foam baking properly.

Swap the apple

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Raisinfits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Applethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, sugar, lemon, cinnamon, sauce, egg. 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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