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CLXXIV.— Parmese Rice

From A Lenten cookery book (1876).

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A historical recipe

A Lenten cookery book, by Lear, Henrietta Louisa, formerly Farrer (1876).

United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a dessertspoonful of mustard
  2. a tablespoonful of Parmesan cheese

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Fry a sliced onion in oil or butter, with a few (shelled) shrimps, prawns, or bits of lobster, stirring in a dessertspoonful of mustard.
  2. When hot, put in a cupful of boiled rice (very dry), and a tablespoonful of Parmesan cheese.
  3. Stir, and serve very hot.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
Source http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Credit

From A Lenten cookery book (1876), printed page 64, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/ALentenCookeryBook

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.