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Harper's cook book encyclopædia

1902

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Presented as published in 1902. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Rice Macaroni. — Wash and pick over one teacupful of rice ; add to it three teacupfuls of boiling water, and place over the fire. When done, drain, and in a baking-dish place a layer of rice, then a layer of cheese cut into dice, a little butter, salt, and pepper, and alternating with rice and cheese until the dish is full, having cheese on top. Fill the pan with milk, and bake three-quarters of an hour. Rice and Mushroom Croquettes. — Open a can of mushrooms (the French champignons) several hours before you make the croquettes, and drain off the liquor. Stew them for ten minutes in mutton or chicken stock, drain again, and chop. Save the soup-stock, and cook in it half a dozen table-spoonfuls of rice. The 430 Rice Risotto VEGETABLES Rice, Timbale of rice will soak up all the broth, unless there is more than is necessary. Add to the soft rice the mushrooms, two teaspoonfuls of melted butter, the beaten yolks of two eggs, and season with pepper and salt. When this paste is thoroughly cold, flour your hands and make it into cro- quettes. Roll these in egg and cracker dust, and set them for several hours in the ice-chest before frying in deep fat. Rice Risotto. — Fry a sliced onion brown, in a table-spoonful of olive oil or of butter. Add to these a pint of hot water and a cup of rice which has been washed and picked over. Let it boil until soft, adding more water if the rice becomes too dry. Heat a cupful of stewed tomatoes, liquid and pulp together, but free from lumps, and stir into it a tea- spoonful of sugar. When the rice is soft, salt it to taste ; add the tomato; turn the risotto into a dish and strew over it a heaping table-spoonful of grated cheeseRice Risotto ; Parmesan is the best. Rice, Savory. — Boil a cupful of rice in three pints of boiling water for fifteen minutes, or until the grains are large and full and yet soft. Drain it thoroughly. Melt a table-spoonful of butter in a frying-pan, or, better still, heat two table -spoonfuls of salad oil. Brown a sliced onion in this ; take it out, put in the rice, and stir it with a fork until it is slightly browned. Have hot in a saucepan a cupful of tomato pulp, rubbed smooth and seasoned with pepper and salt. Stir this into the browned rice, sprinkle with two table-spoonfuls of grated cheeseRice, Savory, and turn out in a hot vegetable-dish. This makes an excellent first course at luncheon. Rice, Savory, Casserole of. — Wash a cupful of raw rice ; put it over the fire in two quarts of boiling water, slightly salted, and boil hard for twenty minutes. Drain through a colander and set in an open oven five minutes to dry off. Each grain Rice, Savory, Casserole of