Rice Border

Ingredients

• The whole should now be rolled into a round ball.
• It is far better to use a mould cut from vegetable.
• The mould should now be lightly washed over with clarified butter.

Method

1. 1

   Roll rice into a round ball, press flat into a cheese shape, and bake in the oven.

2. 2

   Ornament with a carrot cut into a triangular chisel shape.

3. 3

   Bake until light brown for meat fillings or just to dry for sweets.

4. 4

   Scoop out the inside and fill with damsons and juice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's guide to preserved meats, fruits, vegetables, &c (1880), page 72. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

The whole should now be rolled into a round ball, and if the consistency is right it 'will retain this round shape. Next press the round ball flat till it becomes the shape of a whole cheese. This rice border is now to be baked in the oven, but before baking it can be ornamented in a variety of different ways. The best way of ornamenting rice borders is for the cook to get a carrot or some vegetable of that de- scription, and to cut it into a shapo like a triangular chisel. By pressing 46 Crosse and Blackwell's this carrot thus cut against the edges of the border, the border of rice can be formed into a number of projections somewhat star-shaped, the whole of which, of course, will be exactly the same size, as they are formed in the same mould. It is far better to use a mould cut from vegetable than to attempt to form the rice into anything like a pretty shape by hand or by using a knife. It is almost impossible to get the ornamental ridges the same size unless only one mould is used. Of course, the- cook can exercise her in- genuity as to the shape in which the rice is formed. For instance, if the carrot should be scooped out, say three inches high, and fluted at the top, by pressing this against the border the border would be surrounded by a series of small round pillars rounded at the top, each three inches in height. The mould should now be lightly washed over with clarified butter

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