Sweet Pillau

Ingredients

• one pound of Patna rice
• two quarts of strong white stock
• a pinch of salt
• a little piece of fresh butter
• a syrup flavoured with either lemon, cocoanut, musk, or rose water
• a little saffron

Method

1. 1

   Boil rice in stock with salt, drain, and steam.

2. 2

   Prepare syrup, mix with rice, garnish with butter, fried almonds, pistachios, and sultanas.

3. 3

   Optionally color rice with saffron.

As published

This recipe was extracted from National viands à la mode (1895) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sweet Pillau Boil one pound of Patna rice in two quarts of strong white stock, with only a pinch of salt. Watch the rice carefully ; the moment it is tender drain and steam before the fire. Now prepare a syrup flavoured with either lemon, cocoanut, musk, or rose water. Turn the rice into a dish, put a little piece of fresh butter on it, stir lightly with a fork for the butter to mix with it, then pour over the syrup ; garnish the top with fried almonds or pis- tachios and sultanas. If preferred, the rice may be coloured with a little saffron

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