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Whole Rice Pancakes

A historical recipe from The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822).

A historical recipe

The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Project Gutenberg eBook #29084.

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Source and licence

From The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary, by Eaton, Mary, active 1823-1849 (1822). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #29084 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29084). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Stew half a pound of whole rice in water till it is very tender, and let it stand in a basin to cool.
  2. Break it small, put to it half a pint of scalded cream, half a pound of clarified butter, a handful of flour, a little nutmeg and salt, and five eggs well beaten.
  3. Stir these well together, and fry them in butter or lard.
  4. Serve them up with sugar sifted over them, and a Seville orange or lemon cut and laid round the dish.
  5. This preparation may be made into a pudding, either baked or boiled, and with currants added or not, as approved.
  6. Three quarters of an hour will bake it, and an hour will boil it.