Rice and Pumpkin

Ingredients

• a pumpkin
• an onion
• a couple of cloves
• small piece of celery
• a good lump of butter
• some water
• some rice
• a little cream
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Cut the pumpkin into pieces and put it into an earthen jar with salt, onion, cloves, celery, and butter.

2. 2

   Add water and cover.

3. 3

   Cook slowly in the oven or by the fire.

4. 4

   When cooked, pass through a sieve.

5. 5

   Boil some rice; when two-thirds cooked, add the pumpkin and finish cooking together.

6. 6

   Add cream and pepper at the last, and more salt if necessary.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Wholesome cookery (1887) by Marie de Joncourt, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rice and Pumpkin. Cut a pumpkin into pieces ; put it into an earthen jar, with some salt, an onion, a couple of cloves, small piece of celery, and a good lump of butter; add some water; put on the lid. Cook slowly, either in the oven or by the side of the fire. When cooked, pass it through a sieve. Now boil some rice ; when two-thirds cooked, add the pumpkin to it, and finish cooking them together. Add a little cream and pepper

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