Rice Patties

Ingredients

• 1 heaping tablespoonful of rice
• 2 cups of cold water
• % teaspoonful salt
• 1 teaspoonful butter
• % an egg
• 1 large cupful of cooked chicken, cut into bits
• 1 small cup of thick white sauce.

Method

1. 1

   Wash the rice and cook it in a double boiler with water and salt for 20 minutes.

2. 2

   Once cooked, mix with the beaten egg.

3. 3

   Spoon into buttered muffin pans, pressing it against the sides and bottom.

4. 4

   Bake until brown.

5. 5

   Heat chicken in white sauce and fill the patties just before serving, garnishing with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The fun of cooking (1915) by Caroline French Benton, page 48. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 heaping tablespoonf ul of rice. 2 cups of cold water. % teaspoonful salt. 1 teaspoonful butter. % an egg. 1 large cupful of cooked chicken, cut into bits. 1 small cup of thick white sauce. (See your rule.) Wash the rice and put it over to cook in the double boiler in the water; add the salt; when it has cooked twenty min- utes without stirring, taste it and see if it is soft, and no- tice if the water has boiled away so it is dry; if it is done, take off the cover and stand the boiler in tiie oven or on the back of the stove tiU each grain of rice is full and there is not a drop of water left. Then mix with the egg after you have beaten it and divided it, and put a spoonful into each mufiSn pan after it has been buttered; press this oa the sides and bottom like a thick pie crust; warm the but- ter and put a little on the edges of each and put them in the oven till brown. Make the white sauce, heat the chicken in it and fill the patties at the last moment; put a bit of parsley on top of each one. **We used to have these patties often for lunch and Norah would put in creamed fish or left-over vegetables, or eggs. We have not had them for ever so long, and we must remember and have them again, they are so good. And Brownie, remind me to have chicken for dinner the night before the party, so there will be some to warm up the next day.*' DOLL-AND-LITTLE-GIEL PARTY 197 ''Wait one minute, Mother, please. I want to ask Norah if these are what she had thought of for us/' Strangely enough they were, only she had in- tended to have the rice shells filled with scram- bled eggs. *'But the chicken 's better, '* she said. ''Trust your mother for thinkin' of if Brownie ran back again. "I just wanted to be sure she hadn't thought of anything nicer," she said. "And she hadn't. These are going to be perfectly lovely." "Now for the potatoes; what kind do you think you would like f ' ' "I can make nice ones, chopped and fried," said Brownie proudly. "I don't believe we had better give those small children anything fried, dear ; I 'm pretty sure their mothers would not like that. What would you think of the potato puff Norah makes out of left-over mashed potato ? ' ' "Just the thing. I wouldn't have to boil the potatoes and peel them and mash them. Left-overs are always so convenient!" "Then we must be sure to have mashed po- tato for dinner the night before the party, or there won't be any left over," said Mrs. Blair, laughing. "Now, write down this re- 198 THE FUN OF COOKENa ceipt ; only remember I am making it small for you ; for the family you must take two cups or more of potato, and one egg. ' ' POTATO PUFF 1 cup of mashed potato. ^ teaspoonf 111 salt. y^ cup of milk. % of a beaten eg'g, 1 teaspoonful of butter. Mix the potato with the milk and salt and heat it, beating it well. Then stir in the butter after warming it till sof t, and last the ^'g. Put in a small dish and bake in a hot oven tiU brown. **I think it would be nice to bake this in one of the small brown earthenware dishes, Brownie ; they always look well on the table, and a tin or agate pan would n't do at all ; you know you must serve it right in the pan you bake it in.'' **Isn't it funny, you have one-half an egg in the potato and one-half in the rice patties

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