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Raisins and Rice

A sweet rice pudding made with raisins, served hot with sugar and butter sauce.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and raisin work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 565 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Raisins and Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare and cook

  1. Place the rice and raisins in a pudding bag.

  2. Drop the bag into a pot of boiling water and frequently turn it.

  3. Once cooked, remove the bag.

Serve

  1. Serve hot on a dish.

  2. Serve with sugar and butter 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.

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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 + raisintop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together565 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

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

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

  4. Sugar + buttertop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Raisin + buttertop 21% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together7,630 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanoic acid (acides aroma).

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

What each ingredient does

Rice
Starch that swells and softens as it absorbs water, forming the body of the pudding.
Raisins
Add sweetness, chewy texture and moisture as they plump in the cooking water.

The step that matters

Turning the bag. Frequent turning keeps the rice and raisins from settling and sticking to one spot, so they cook evenly as the starch absorbs water in the boiling pot.

Swap the raisin

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

  1. Coconutfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Peachfits about as well
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against rice, sugar, butter. 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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