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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Rice, Compote of. — "Wash a quarter of a pound of rice, and drain it. Put it into a saucepan with a large quantity of cold water, biing it gently to the boil, leave the saucepan uncovered, and boil until the grains are soft when pressed between the thumb and finger, but quite distinct. Drain the rice, and steam it in a clean saucciDan near the fire till it is dry. Spread it on a dish, sprinkle powdered sugar and cinnamon plentifully over it, and set it by for an hour. Just before serving squeeze the juice of a lemon over it, and pour upon it equal parts of light wine and waterRice, Compote of sweetened. Time to boil the rice, about twenty minutes. Sufficient for four or five jiersons. Rice Cream.^Mix a large table-spoonful of ground rice very smoothly with a little milk, and add more milk to make the quantity up to half a pint. Pour the mixture into a saucepan, with the yellow part of half a lemon rubbed upon sugar, a quarter of an ounce of isinglass or gelatine, and a little piece of butter, and let it boil gently for five minutes, stirring all the time. Pour it out, and when it is almost cold stir into it a quarter of a pint of thick creamRice Cream. Beat the preparation until it begins to stiffen, pour it into a mould, and put it in a cool place to set. Serve with fresh fruit, or with fruit-jeUy reduced to syrup. Time, five minutes to boil the cream. Pro- bable cost, Is. 2d. Sufficient for a pint mould. Rice Cream (another way). — Simmer a pint of milk with a little lemon-rind or cinna- mon till it is pleasantly flavoured. Mix in a bowl four table - spoonfuls of ground rice sm_oothly -R-ith two table- spoonfuls of cold milk, and add the well-beaten yolks of four and the whites of two eggs. Stir the milk when boihng into this, then boil it, and add a little sugarRice Cream (another way). Pour the rice into a mould, and set it in a cool place until wanted. Turn it out, and serve with fruit or custard. It is better made the day before it is to be used. Time to boil the cream, three minutes. Sufficient for a pint and a half mould. Probable cost, lOd. Rice Cream (another way). — i>'ce Cream, Rice. Rice, Creamed. — Take half a pound of rice, wash and pick it ; parboil and strain ; season with pepper and salt; pour over it a quart of soupRice, Creamed and the gra\'y of veal ; let it boil two hours and pass it through a tamis. Rice Croquettes. — Prepare the rice as for Gateau of Rice {see Rice, Gateau of). When it has swelled in the cream and is properly seasoned, let it cool ; then roll it into croquettes the shape of a cork. Next strew over them crumbs of bread (by which is meant that you dip them first into an omelet and next into crumbs of bread) . Roll them several times in the crumbs in what form you please, and mind they arc made a fine colour. When you have fried them of a good colour, you may glaze them on one side with pounded sugarRice Croquettes, by using the salamander. Send up with fried parsley of a nice colour in the centre. RIC ( 744 ) RIC