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Rice and Orange Pudding Frozen

A frozen dessert made from rice, milk, cream, sugar, and orange zest and juice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7,374 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Rice and Orange Pudding Frozen

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Wash the rice carefully and place it in a saucepan with the cold water.

  2. Once it begins to boil, pour off the water and add the milk and grated rind of the oranges.

Cook the pudding

  1. Cook for 1 hour in a double boiler.

  2. Add the sugar and cook for an additional 30 minutes.

  3. Remove from heat, add salt, and let cool.

Finish and freeze

  1. When cool, add the juice of the oranges and the whipped cream.

  2. Freeze the mixture like ice cream.

  3. Serve with iced orange sauce.

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

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

  2. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

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

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

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

  4. Orange + milktop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together4,696 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Milk + creamtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Provides the starch and body that give the pudding its thick, creamy texture.
Milk
Forms the creamy base that the rice cooks into, adding richness and moisture.
Cream
Adds fat that keeps the frozen pudding smooth and soft rather than icy.
Sugar
Sweetens the pudding and helps keep the frozen texture softer.
Oranges
Contribute citrus aroma and acidity from the grated rind and juice.

The step that matters

Cook the rice and milk gently in a double boiler. Slow, gentle heat keeps milk from scorching on the pan base and lets the rice soften evenly into a smooth custard-like texture. Adding sugar after the rice has softened keeps the grains from toughening early.

Swap the orange

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Strawberryfits better
  4. Orangethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, milk, cream, sugar. 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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