Boiled Ground Rice Pudding

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784
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The Experienced English Housekeeper
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Ingredients (10)
Instructions (7)
  1. Boil six ounces of ground rice in a quart of good milk, till it is soft.
  2. Then put in half a pound of butter, with six eggs very well beat, and sugar and rose water to make it palatable.
  3. Beat some spinage in a mortar, with a few leaves of tansey, squeeze out the juice through a cloth, and put it in.
  4. Mix all well together.
  5. Cover your dish with writing paper well buttered, and pour it in.
  6. Three quarters of an hour will bake it.
  7. When you dish it up, stick it all over with a Seville or sweet orange in half quarters.
Original Text
BOIL six ounces of ground rice in a quart of good milk, till it is soft; then put in half a pound of butter, with six eggs very well beat, and sugar and rose water to make it palatable; beat some spinage in a mortar, with a few leaves of tansey, squeeze out the juice through a cloth, and put it in; mix all well together, cover your dish with writing paper well buttered, and pour it in; three quarters of an hour will bake it; when you dish it up, stick it all over with a Seville or sweet orange in half quarters.
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