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A Serbian Dish of Rice and Mutton

A historical recipe from Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916).

A historical recipe

Allied Cookery: British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #44947.

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Source and licence

From Allied Cookery, by Grace Clergue Harrison, Gertrude Clergue (1916). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44947 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44947). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Serbia. Associated with Serbia by a demonym leading its title: Serbian (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Cut 5 onions very fine, and 1/4 lb.
  2. of lean salt pork, in thin slices.
  3. Put these into a deep pot to cook until the onions are a golden brown.
  4. Add 2 lbs.
  5. of lamb or mutton cut in pieces, add salt, pepper, and 3 pimentos;
  6. just cover the meat with water and cook gently about an hour, then add 1/2 cup of rice;
  7. cover tightly and let it stew 20 minutes more.