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Turkish Pilaf I

A historical recipe from The Boston cooking-school cook book, by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896).

A historical recipe

The Boston cooking-school cook book, by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). Project Gutenberg eBook #65061.

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

Source and licence

From The Boston cooking-school cook book, by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #65061 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65061). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Turkey. Associated with Turkey by a demonym leading its title: Turkish (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. Wash and drain one-half cup rice, cook in one tablespoon butter until brown, add one cup boiling water, and steam until water is absorbed.
  2. Add one and three-fourths cups hot stewed tomatoes, cook until rice is soft, and season with salt and pepper.