Croquettes de Riz à la Fleur d’Orange

Ingredients

• 6 ozs. of rice
• f pint of milk or cream
• 3 ozs. of fresh butter
• 3 ozs. of pounded sugar
• 7 yolks of eggs
• 1 gill of orange flower water
• lb of bread crumbs
• 1 pot of strawberry jam

Method

1. 1

   Take six ounces of rice well picked and washed; put it on the fire with the milk or cream.

2. 2

   When the rice is well boiled, add the fresh butter, the sugar, and four yolks of eggs.

3. 3

   Mix all well together, and put it on the fire to give consistency; add enough orange flower water to give a flavour.

4. 4

   When the ingredients are sufficiently consolidated, take it off the fire and put it on a plate to cool.

5. 5

   Have ready some crumbs of bread passed through a sieve, and three yolks of eggs broken and beaten up in a basin.

6. 6

   Make up little balls of the rice preparation, dip each one again and again into beaten egg, then into the crumbs.

7. 7

   Roll them well, and fry in boiling lard; drain before piling up in a hot dish, and sprinkle sugar over them.

8. 8

   Heat some strawberry jam; make a wall of it round the dish, and pile up the croquettes in the middle.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Savouries and sweets suitable for luncheons and dinners (1886) by Mary L. Allen, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Croquettes de Riz ^ la Fleur d’Orange- For Six or Eight Persons. — 6 ozs. of rice ; f pint of milk . or cream ; 3 ozs. of fiesh butter ; 3 ozs. of pounded sugar ; 7 yolks of eggs; 1 gill of orange flower water; lb of bread crumbs ; lard for frying ; 1 pot of strawberry jam

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