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Rice Cheesecake

A cheesecake made with ground rice, butter, sugar, lemon, and eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Rice and lemon are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,366 recipes. Both carry (e,e)-2,4-decadienal, which smells fatty, deep fried. The science ↓

Rice Cheesecake

Ingredients

Directions

Make the mixture

  1. Melt the butter in a bowl.

  2. Boil and beat the ground rice, then mix it with the melted butter.

  3. Add sifted sugar to taste and mix well.

Finish and store

  1. Once cool, add the lemon rind, lemon juice, and beaten eggs, then mix until well combined.

  2. Store in a cool place; it will keep for a month.

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

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

  2. Butter + ricetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together9,645 recipes

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

  3. Butter + lemontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together41,227 recipes

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

  4. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  5. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Ground rice
Forms the body of the mixture; its starch thickens and sets as it is boiled.
Butter
Adds richness and a tender, smooth texture.
Eggs
Bind the mixture and help it set.
Sugar
Adds sweetness.
Lemon juice
Adds acidity and a bright flavour.

The step that matters

Add the eggs only once the mixture has cooled. Adding beaten eggs to a hot mixture can scramble them, leaving lumps instead of a smooth, evenly set texture.

Swap the lemon

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

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Coconutfits better
  3. Lemonthe original
  4. Raisinfits about as well

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