Zarda (Sweet Rice)

Ingredients

• one pound three ounces of rice
• twelve ounces of sugar
• six ounces of water
• three ounces of ghee
• four cloves
• thirty grains of saffron
• four ounces of milk
• the juice of an orange
• three prunes

Method

1. 1

   Wash rice and soak for an hour.

2. 2

   Make syrup of sugar and water.

3. 3

   Boil ghee with cloves, add rice, and cook until water dries.

4. 4

   Mix saffron syrup and milk, add orange juice and prunes, and cook until rice is soft.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Zarda. (Sweet Rice.) Take one pound three ounces of rice, wash it twice, and keep it in water for an hour. Then make a syrup of twelve ounces of sugar in six ounces of water. 360 PUNJAB (Mussulman) Put three ounces of ghee in a pan, also four cloves and six ounces of water. When the water boils put in the rice, and when the water dries up put thirty grains of saffron in the syrup already prepared, and mix it with the rice. Stir it with a spoon, and when the syrup is dried mix in four ounces of milk. Take the juice of an orange along with the juice of three prunes

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