Italian Rice

Ingredients

• Buy the best head rice.
• Drop rice slowly into well salted, boiling water.
• Place in your skillet olive oil to cover the bottom.
• also tablespoon of butter.
• Chop one large Spanish onion.
• add one finely chopped clove of garlic.
• add one or two cans of tomatoes.
• Add a pinch of saffron or thyme.

Method

1. 1

   Wash rice thoroughly, then boil in salted water for 23 minutes.

2. 2

   Drain off water and rinse with cold water.

3. 3

   In a skillet, heat olive oil and butter, add chopped onion and cook until golden.

4. 4

   Add fish and garlic, mash and stir.

5. 5

   Add tomatoes through a sieve, mix well, and simmer for one hour.

6. 6

   Season to taste.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Stag Cook Book: Written for Men by Men (1922) by Carroll Mac Sheridan, page 28. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ITALIAN RICE First, a word about cooking rice. Buy the best head rice. Wash it thoroughly, — six waters. Drop rice slowly into well salted, boiling water, and boil for twenty-three minutes. Drain off three-quarters of water and hold rice under cold water faucet for a moment; this will leave each grain firm and perfect. Drain thoroughly. Now the sauce. Place in your skillet olive oil to cover the bottom; also tablespoon of butter. Chop one large Spanish onion. Place it in the skillet and cook slowly. Stir often. After ten or fifteen minutes, a piece of white fish (sole preferred) about the size of your four fingers, from the palm down — see? When the onions are a golden color add one finely chopped clove of garlic. When fish is thoroughly cooked, mash it up with a fork and stir well. Now add one or two cans of tomatoes which have been stewing slowly for half an hour or more. Add them througih a sieve and push with a spoon so as to get the thick part through. Mix well. Place this on the back of the stove where it will simmer [124] WRITTEN FOR MEN BY MEN for one hour. Add a pinch of saifron or thyme

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