Rice Balls with Soft Custard

Ingredients

• a cupful of rice
• two cupfuls and a half of milk
• a teaspoonful of salt
• a quart of milk
• two table-spoonfuls of corn-starch
• five of cold milk
• four eggs
• half a cupful of sugar
• a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt
• a large teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract

Method

1. 1

   Wash the rice in three waters and soak for an hour.

2. 2

   Pour off the water and add milk.

3. 3

   Cook in a double-boiler for an hour, then add salt and cook for another half hour.

4. 4

   Fill custard cups with cooked rice and cool.

5. 5

   For custard, heat milk in a double-boiler, mix cornstarch with cold milk, stir into boiling milk, and cook for ten minutes.

6. 6

   Beat eggs and sugar, pour boiling mixture over, and cook for five minutes.

7. 7

   Add salt and vanilla.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 348. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rice Balls with Soft Custard. After washing a cupful of rice in three waters, and soaking it for an hour in cold water, pour off the latter, and add two cupfuls and a half of milk to the rice. Put on to cook in the double-boiler. At the end of an hour add a teaspoonful of salt ; cook half an hour longer. Dip 662 MISS PARLOA'S KITCHEN COMPANION. small custard cups into cold water, and then fill them with cooked rice, and set where it will get wholly cold. At serving-time turn the mounds of rice out upon a flat dish ; and after putting a bit of bright jelly on each one, pour soft custard around all. To Make the Custard. — Put a quart of milk over the fire in a double-boiler. Mix two table-spoonfuls of corn- starch with five of cold milk, and when the milk in the boiler begins to boil, stir this mixture into it, and cook ten minutes. Meanwhile beat together four eggs and half a cupful of sugar, and after pouring the boiling mixture over this, cook the custard in the boiler for five minutes, stirring all the while. Kernove from the fire, and add a quarter of a teaspoonful of salt and a large teaspoonful of vanilla or lemon extract

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