Riz au curry (Curried Rice)

Ingredients

• 6 oz. rice
• 1 teaspoonful curry powder
• 2 shallots
• 1.5 oz. butter
• 1 gill brown sauce
• 1 tomato
• 1 hard-boiled egg
• 1 teaspoonful cream
• seasoning
• watercress for garnish

Method

1. 1

   Pick, wash, and drain rice; peel and chop shallots.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a stew-pan, add shallots, fry until golden, stir in curry powder, fry a few minutes longer.

3. 3

   Add rice, shake pan to blend.

4. 4

   Gradually moisten with brown sauce, cream, and stock if necessary.

5. 5

   Peel and dice tomato, add to mixture.

6. 6

   Cook gently until rice is tender, ensuring it remains moist.

7. 7

   Dish up in pyramidal form, surround with slices of hard-boiled egg and watercress.

8. 8

   Serve very hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recherché entrées (1907) by Charles Herman Senn, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

seasoning. Wash and scrape the carrots, slice them finely and put them in a stew-pan with the butter and the ham finely chopped, stir over a fire for about five minutes, and besprinkle with a dessert-spoonful of rice flour, then moisten with the stock, and cook till tender, stirring occasionally. Rub the cooked carrots through a fine sieve and return the puree to the stew-pan, now add the sherry and let it get thoroughly heated whilst the pan is covered. Stir in the cream and the egg-yolks ; season to taste with salt and white pepper and cayenne. Stir over the fire till the eggs are partly set, then remove and let cool a little. Whisk the white of egg to a stiff froth, and mix lightly with the puree. Line some small casserole or tartlet moulds with thinly rolled out puff paste, prick the bottoms with a fork and fill them with the puree. Bake them in a fairly hot oven for about 20 minutes. Dish up and serve hot. Concombre farcie Agrasienne. (Farced Cucumber, Agrasienne Style.) 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Ravioli d, I'ltalienne. i lb. flour, 2 or 3 yolks of eggs, salt and pepper, about 6 oi. fish or liver farce, if gills good tomato sauce, 2 oz. grated Parmesan cheese, J oi,. butter. Sift the flour on to a paste board, make a well in the centre of the Hour, add a pinch of salt, mix in the yolks of eggs and a little water, and work it to a stift paste ; this must be kneaded thoroughly for at least ten minutes; it must be stiff and yet of an elastic texture. Roll out the paste as thinly as possible, stamp out some rounds about the size of a half-crown piece, put about a tea- spoonful of farce (liver or fish forcemeat richly seasoned and mixed with Parmesan) on the centre of a round, wet the edges of the paste, and cover with another round of paste, press the edges well together, and proceed thus until the farce is used up. Poach the raviolis in fast boihng seasoned stock, and cook for at least 15 minutes. Take up, drain and dish up. 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Melt the butter in a stew-pan, add the shallots, and fry a golden colour, stir in the curry powder and fry a few minutes longer stirring all the while, then add the rice and shake the pan over the fire in order to blend the rice thoroughly. Moisten gradually with the brown sauce, cream and a little stock if necessary. Peel the tomato, cut it into dice and add also. Cook gently until the rice is tender, being careful that the rice is kept moistened, as it sweUs in cooking ; stir frequently but gently ; season with salt, pepper, a pinch of ground mace, and nutmeg. Dish up in pyramidal form or border shape, surround the base with slices of hard-boiled egg

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