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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.
constantly until it leaves the bottom of the saucepan, then pour it into a mould. When it is quite cold and stiff, turn it out, and stick all over it blanched sweet almonds cut into straws. Pour cream or thin custard round the flummery, or a sauce made with wine, lemon-juice, and sugarRice Flummery. If preferred, cinnamon, lemon-rind, or vanilla may be used to flavour the flummery instead of almonds. Time, about ten minutes to boil the rice. Probable cost, exclusive of the sauce, 6d. Sufficient for a pint mould. Rice Food, Savoury.— The following recipe we extract from Soyer's "Charitable Cookery." The ingredients are six pounds of bones, ten quarts of water, three ounces of salt, bay-leaves, &c., two onions cut thin, half an ounce of sugar, half a pound of vegetables cut small, half a pound of oatmeal, a pound of rice, and two ounces of dripping. " Having saved the bones of the previous day, a very good food may be made thus: — Take six pounds of bones, which break into small pieces, and boil in ten quarts of water for four hours, having added three ounces of salt, a small bunch of thyme, bay-leafRice Food, Savoury, and savory; put into a stewpan the fat, and two onions cut thin, half a pound of vegetables — as carrots, turnips, celery, &c. — cut very thin, and half an ounce of sugar; put it on the fire for fifteen minutes, stirring it occasionally, add half a pound of oat- meal, and mix well, moisten with two gallons of the stock from the bones, add a pound and a quarter of rice previously soaked; boil till tender, and serve." Rice for Curried Oysters and Similar Dishes. — Wash a quarter of a pound of rice in two or tln-ee waters. Drain it, throw it into a saucepan of last-boihng water, and let it boil quickly for ten minutes. Drain it again, and boil it in three-quarters of a pint of milk till the grains are tender with- out being broken. Drain, dry it on a sieve, tossing it lightly with two forks, to separate the grains, and serve hot. Time, from ten to fifteen minutes to boil the rice in the milk. Probable cost, 2^d. Sufficient for four or five persons. Rice for a Pilau {sec Pilau, Eice for a). Rice, Fowl Boiled with {see Fowl Boiled, &c.). Rice, Fowl Stewed in.— Take a fowl, half boil it in a moderate quantity of water, then put to it a quarter of a pound of rice with some mace. Stew the fowl till it becomes tender. Some well-seasoned veal broth added during the stewing will make the dish more savoury. Take care to stew the fowl till it becomes tender ; it must not, however, be too much stewed, or it will fall to pieces and lose its form. Rice, Fowl with {see Fowl with Rice). Rice Fritters. — Boil three ounces of rice in a pint of new milk till it forms a stiff paste. Sweeten it, flavour with grated lemon-rind, or powdered cinnamon, mace, or nutmeg, and beat it up with two table-spoonfuls of cream, two eggs, and a spoonful of brandy, if liked. Rice Fritters