Risotto a la Milanaise

Ingredients

• one good-sized, very sound, peeled onion
• two ounces of very good butter
• ten ounces of well-picked Italian rice
• two good-sized chopped truffles
• one quart of boiling and strained white broth
• six fine chopped mushrooms
• a heavy half-teaspoonful of salt
• a light saltspoonful of white pepper
• one and a half ounces of grated Swiss cheese
• a heaped teaspoonful of Spanish branch saffron

Method

1. 1

   Chop the onion finely.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a saucepan on a brisk fire; add the onions, brown them, then add rice and truffles.

3. 3

   Stir for one and a half minutes, then add boiling broth, lightly stir, and cook for fourteen minutes.

4. 4

   Add mushrooms and more broth gradually, stirring constantly for ten minutes.

5. 5

   Season with salt, pepper, Swiss cheese, and saffron diluted in broth.

6. 6

   Cook for three or four minutes longer, then serve with grated Swiss cheese.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The table (1889) by Alexander Filippini, page 249. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Risotto a la Milanaise.— Chop rather fine one good-sized, very sound, peeled onion. Melt two ounces of very good butter in a sauce- pan on a very brisk fire ; add the onions, brown them for six or seven minutes, or until they have obtained a good golden color ; then add ten ounces of well-picked Italian rice (a heaped cupful), with two good-sized chopped truffles ; stir well with the spatula without ceasing for one and a half minutes, then add one quart of boiling and strained white broth (No. 99), lightly stir once only, and cook for fourteen minutes. Add six fine chopped mushrooms, and little by little, at intervals, another quart of boiling wh'ite broth— stirring almost constantly with the wooden spatula while cooking, very rapidly, for ten minutes more. Season with a heavy half-teaspoonful of salt, a light saltspoonful of white pepper, adding one and a half ounces of grated Swiss cheese, and a heaped teaspoonful of Spanish branch saffron

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