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Practical household cookery

1891

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Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
which must be minced as fine as a paste; put it into a stewpan with three pints of broth, boil it with all the vegetables, add one pint of well- washed rice, a slice of bacon-rind cut in small dice, and two mashed fresh tomatoes. Boil for twenty-five minutes, season with salt and pepper, stir well, then pour it into a soup-tureen, and serve with two ounces of grated cheeseMinestrone on a plate apart. 107. RISOTTO* A LA PifeMONTAISE. Put three pints of good broth into a stewpan; when boiling throw in three-quarters of a pound of nice clean rice; cook for twenty minutes on a good fire, giving it an occasional stir ; then add two ounces of grated cheese, the same quantity of fresh butter and truffles cut in very thin slices, a little grated nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste, mix well together, add a little gravy if too thickRisotto a la Piemontaise, and serve on a hot dish. 108. RISOTTO MILANAISE. Slice an onion and fry it in a stewpan with an ounce of butter and a little beef marrow till of a nice brown colour ; dilute with a quart of broth ; boil it, strain the broth through a sieve into the stewpan again, and season with salt and pepper; boil it; then add one pint of rice and a small pinch of saffron ; cook on a good fire for twenty minutes, often stirring the contents with a wooden spoon to prevent burning ; sprinkle two handfuls of grated cheese over it, with a gill of white dry wine ; stir and mix well together ; boil for another two or three minutes, then draw from the fire, and just before serving add one ounce of fresh butterRisotto Milanese, divided in five or six parts and • put about in the stewpan ; cover with the lid for two or three minutes, then pour it * liiKotto is the Italian nnnie for nil matle rice-dishes. PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 65 into a hot dish with a little more grated cheese sprinkled on the top, and serve. 109. RISOTTO (ITALIAN STYLE). Proceed as above, but omit the saffron ; add four t^able- spoonfuls of tomato sauce at the same time as the cheese, and serve after having given it a good stirring. 110. ANOTHER RISOTTO (ITALIAN STYLE). Shred fine the red part of a carrot and an onion, cut in small dice a rasher of bacon, fry these in a stewpan with an ounce of butter till of a nice brown colour ; then add the giblets and combs of two fowls chopped fine, fry for a j few minutes longer, then moisten with one quart of broth, season with salt and pepper to taste, and add a small pinch of saffron ; boil it on a good fire ; when boiling pour in one pint of clean rice ; stir and boil fast till nearly cooked, then add four tablespoon fuls of tomato sauceRisotto (Italian Style) and six of grated cheese, stir the contents well together, add half a dozen mushrooms and one trufile cut in thin slices, stir again to prevent burning, cook for two minutes longer, pour it into a hot dish with a little more grated cheese sprinkled on the top and one ounce of butter divided in ^ve or six pieces and placed at equal distances about the rice; then place the dish in a moderately heated oven for two minutes, and serve. HI. RISOTTO A LA CHARTREUSE. Prepare a broth of frogs or of crayfish, and proceed as in the first risotto (Italian style) ; when cooked, pour the rice into a hot dish with pieces of frog's meat, boned and cut in dice, or the crayfish-tails properly mixed with it, as well as a few slices of truffles. ^ E 66 PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 112. RISOTTO (SPANISH STYLE). Risotto (Spanish Style)