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Rice Caudle

From Virginia Cookery-book, 1884

Serves 2

This is nourishing food for teething children.

Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 143. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Rice Caudle. Rub a table-spoonful of ground rice into a pint of water by degrees ; boil it till smooth and thick ; sweeten with a table-spoonful of white sugar, and flavor with a slight sprinkling of nutmeg. If too thick dilute it. This is nourishing food for teething children, and a gill of pure milk

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