Curry of Rice

Ingredients

• one cupful of rice
• two-cupfuls and a half of boiling water
• two teaspoonfuls of salt
• two level teaspoonfuls of curry-powder
• one-fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper
• one teaspoonful of minced onion
• two tablespoonfuls of butter

Method

1. 1

   Wash the rice in three waters and soak for two hours.

2. 2

   Drain, then cook butter and onion until light straw-color.

3. 3

   Add rice and stir for five minutes.

4. 4

   Add curry powder, pepper, and salt, then water.

5. 5

   Cover and boil for ten minutes, then simmer for forty to fifty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 284. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two teaspoonfuls of salt and two cupfuls and a half of boil- ing water. Place it where it will boil rapidly for fifteen minutes ; then set the pan back where the rice will cook slowly for an hour or more. This mode gives a dish of rice that is sweet and dry. .^ . : «# * Turkish Rice. A cupful of rice, one of strained tomato, two of cold water, two table-spoonfuls of butter, one teaspoonful of salt, and two ounces of fine-chopped ham are the ingredi- ents required. After washing the rice in three waters, put it into a stew-pan with the other materials, and set upon the stove. When the dish begins to boil, put the stew-pan back where its contents will hardly simmer during the next forty minutes. At serving-time turn the rice into a warm dish. Do not use a spoon in making this transfer, as that would be likely to break the grains and mar the appearance of the dish* Turkish rice is nice for serving with cold meat or fish or warmed-over meat. ••* Curry of Rice. For six or eight persons use one cupful of rice, two- cupfuls and a half of boiling water, two-, tgaspppnfuls ;pf , VEGETABLES. 543 salt, two level teaspoonfuls of curry-powder, one-fourth of a teaspoonful of pepper, one teaspoonful of minced onion, and two table-spoonfuls of butte

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