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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Bice and Indian Curry.— "Wash half a poimd of Patna rice in two or three waters. Drain it, and throw it into plenty of cold water, bring it slowly to the boil, keeping the saucepan uncovered, and let it boil gently until the grains are tender when pressed between the thumb and finger, but are still quite distinct from one another. The rice will need to boil about a quarter of an hour. Drain and dry it on a sieve before the fire. Take two pounds of undressed meat of any kind, or of rabbit, chicken, or fish, and cut this up into neat pieces convenient for serving. Slice two large onions, and fry them in butter tin they are lightly browned without being at all burnt. Take them up, and fry the meat in the same fat, moving it about to keep it from ■burning. IMix a dessert-spoonful of currj'- paste, a dessert-spoonful of curry-powder, and a tea-spoonful of ground rice very smoothly with a cupful of milk. Pour this over the meat, and add half a pint of good stock made from bones, the fried onions, a little salt, and a clove of garlic, if this is liked, but the curry will be more generally acceptable if the garlic is omitted. Stir the sauce tiU it boils, and simmer all gently together till the meat is tender. The time required will vary with the nature of the meat. Put the pieces of meat on a dish. Lift out the pieces of onion, and stir into the curry the juice of haK a lemon.Rice and Indian Curry Pour the sauce over the meat, and serve. Send the rice to table on a separate dish. It should be arranged that the curry and the rice shall be done enough at the same time. Time, altogether, about two hours. Sufficient for six or eight persons. Bice and Macaroon Pudding.— Wash a quarter of a pound of rice, and boil it in a pint and a half of milk till it is tender, and has absorbed the liquor. Boil with it the rind of half a lemon or three or four bitter almonds, to flavour it. Turn it into a basin to cool. Beat three ounces of fresh butter to cream. Mix with this thi'ee ounces of powdered sugar, and the well-beaten yolks of four eggs. Stir in the rice, and add the whites of the eggs whisked to a firm froth. Butter a pudding-mould rather thickly. Put in this a layer of rice, then a layer of macaroons, and repeat until the mould is fuU. Lay a buttered paper on the top of the pudding, tie it in a cloth, and steam until done enough. Turn it out carefully, and send raspberry or red-currant sauce to table with the pudding. About three ounces of macaroonsRice and Macaroon Pudding wiU be required. Time to steam the pudding, two hours. Probable cost, Is. 9d. Sufiicient for five or six persons. Bice and Milk. — Wash a pound of rice, drain it, and simmer in five pints of water till it forms a thick paste. Stir into it a quart | of milk, add treacle or sugar, with flavouringRice and Milk, or, if preferred, pepper and salt. Boil for a few minutes, and serve hot. Time, five minutes to boil the rice with the milk. Sufficient for half a dozen persons. Probable cost, 8d. Bice and Mussels [see Mussels and Rice). Bice and Onion ^owp. —Broun Soup.—