Rice

Ingredients

• Rice is said to be the most healthful food known to man

Method

1. 1

   Wash and put over the stove in plenty of cold water.

2. 2

   Salt slightly and cook till tender; serve with cream and sugar.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The national course in home economics (1917) by Ruth Allen Beezley, page 306. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RICE GRIDDLE CAKES. Soak over night one quart of cold boiled rice in five gills of milk; the next morning add one quart of milk and stir in nearly as much flour, and two eggs well beaten. Bake on a soap-stone griddle. Fine bread-crumbs or rusked bread mixed with the rice, improve this cake. M. H. N. RICE DODGERS. Boil soft one-half pound of rice in salted water; when cold add one egg, one-half cupful of sugar and one-half package self-rising flour. Soak a slice of bread in water, drain and take off the crust; mix well with the rice and cook by dropping a spoonful at a time in boiling lard or Ko-nut. The dodgers must not touch the bottom of the pot. Serve with hot coffee. Greta M. T. CRACKED WHEAT. To four small cupfuls of boiling water stir in one cupful of cracked wheat and a scant teaspoonful of salt. Boil in double boiler two hours; serve hot for breakfast or pour into a mold and serve cold, with cream and sugar for luncheon. Lillie. RICE CAKES. Two ounces of flour, four ounces of ground rice; mix the flour and rice together while in its dry state; four ounces of sugar, two ounces of butter, two eggs, one-half teaspoonful of baking-powder, a pinch of salt, Cream the sugar and butter, add one-half the flour and one &gg, then the remainder of flour, eg^ and baking-powder; grease some gem pans, fill two-thirds full with the mixture; bake fifteen minutes. Mrs. Philander. HOT CEREAL ROLLS. Mush, or any cereal that can be warmed over, will make nice rolls. Add graham flour to form a stiff dough. Knead it very little, cut it into shape of rolls and bake quickly. If the mush was of corn-meal fine white flour may be added. H. F. L. CEREALS AND FARINACEOUS DISHES. 441 A BREAKFAST SHORTCAKE. Take a teacupful of sweet milk and two spoonfuls of rich SAveet cream. Add salt and stir in a spoonful at a time of coarse flour or "shorts." When quite thick knead in fine flour till it will roll nicely. Roll out less than one-quarter of an inch thick. Place quickly in buttered pans and bake in a quick oven. It is to be eaten hot and is nice for break- fast on a cold morning. Mrs. M. Palmer. BANNOCKS. Two teacupfuls of oatmeal or barley meal sifted with two teaspoon- fuls of baking-powder; add to two beaten eggs one tablespoonful of sugar and one pint of milk with a little salt, sifting in the oatmeal. Bake on a griddle. M. V. M. CORN-MEAL MUSH. Put two quarts of water into a kettle, let it come to a boil; now add a tablespoonful of salt and sift in through the fingers of the left hand fresh yeHow corn-meal, a handful at a time stirring constantly with a pudding stick, with the right; continue to stir and add meal until it is as thick as you can stir easily; stir it a while longer; let it cook at least twenty min- utes and it is ready for the table. To be eaten with milk. Martha Higbee. FRIED MUSH. Prepare as above, pour into a mold and when cold slice and fry in drip- pings to a golden brown. Serve for breakfast with maple syrup. Martha Higbee. GRAHAM MUSH. Make same as corn-meal mush; sift the flour and stir it gently into boiling water, stirring it all the time. M. H. PETTIJOHN MUSH. This is a breakfast food which can be procured at every grocery. It is excellent and appetizing; easy to make. Rule for making on each package. Mrs. White. CRACKED WHEAT— No. 2. Soak about one quart of cracked wheat over night in cold water. Then cook thoroughly in water slightly salted, using only the amount of water that the wheat will absorb. Emma B. 442 CEREALS AND FARINACEOUS DISHES, OATMEAL. Use about one cupful of oatmeal to each quart of water. Salt and cook in a double boiler until thoroughly done, or if preferred it can be steamed. Julia Miller. RICE. Rice is said to be the most healthful food known to man

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