Orange Marmalade with Rice Border

Ingredients

• a border of rice
• orange marmalade
• a little candied angelica
• a preserved cherry

Method

1. 1

   Boil rice in water or milk to make a border.

2. 2

   Fill the rice border with orange marmalade.

3. 3

   For decoration, cut candied angelica into strips to form a star shape on top of the pudding, placing a preserved cherry in the center.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 168. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

orange marmalade served in a border of rice. The rice can be boiled in plain water, or milk can be used. Rice borders are very useful, both for making sweets and entrees. A full de- scription of how to make rice borders will be found under the heading of “Damsons, Bottled.” (See Damsons, Bottled.) One of these rice borders filled with orange marmalade will make a most pure and wholesome sweet, of which no invalid need be afraid to par- take. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell have for many years been justly cele- brated for the purity of their marma- lade, which is made entirely from Seville oranges and refined sugar. Orange marmalade is very .suitable to be served with almost any kind of pudding, especially puddings made of cornflour or arrowroot. A very nice dish can be made of orange marmalade as follows Make an ordinary baked 115 HOUSEKEEPER'S GUIDE. custard pudding, semolina pudding, or vermicelli pudding. Let the pudding get cold, and then turn it out of the aish in which it was baked. I am sup- posing the pudding has been baked in an ordinary pie-dish. Now surround the pudding with a border of orange marmalade, and ornament the top as follows : — Take a little candied angelica, or, better still, slice up a preserved crystallised almond. These are of _ a very dark green colour, and are admir- ably adapted for all purposes of orna- menting. Cut this into small strips, so that the strips will form a star. Of course the strips which are pointing lengthways on the pudding should lie somewhat longer than those which point crossways on the top of the pud- ding, which is oval. Place in the middle of this little star a preserved cherry

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