Rice Gems

Ingredients

• Two cupfuls of sweet milk
• One cupful of sugar
• One large cupful of boiled rice
• Flour to thicken
• One egg
• Two table-spoonfuls of melted butter
• One tea-spoonful of salt
• Three tea-spoonfuls of baking powder

Method

1. 1

   Rub the butter and sugar to a cream, and add the beaten eggs, then the milk and then the rice and salt.

2. 2

   Stir well, mixing thoroughly.

3. 3

   Sift the powder with a little flour, add it to the mixture, and stir in more flour as needed to make a rather stiff batter.

4. 4

   Bake thirty minutes in heated and oiled gem-pans.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 159. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RICE GEMS. Two cupfuls of sweet milk. One cupful of sugar. One large cupful of boiled rice. Flour to thicken. One egg. Two table-spoonfuls of melted butter. One tea-spoonful of salt. Three tea-spoonfuls of baking powder

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