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Browned Rice

Browned Rice is a dish of rice cooked with milk, salted, buttered, sliced, and browned in butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Milk and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

Browned Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Make the rice

  1. Cook rice with hot milk in a double boiler until very soft.

  2. Season with salt and butter.

  3. Pack closely in a small bread pan.

Slice and brown

  1. When cold, cut into half-inch slices.

  2. Brown slices delicately in hot butter.

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. Milk + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

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

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

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

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 dish and, cooked soft in milk, sets firm enough to slice when cold.
Milk
Cooks with the rice to give a soft, creamy texture and a tender body.
Butter
Adds richness and fat, and browns in the pan to give the slices a golden crust.

The step that matters

Browning the cold slices. Butter browns through the milk solids and sugars in it, so the slices need enough hot fat and gentle heat to turn golden without scorching before the centre warms.

“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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