may be made according to the [preceding recipe], steaming or stewing the figs a little and chopping slightly.
[RICE AND RAISIN PUDDING.]
Soak the raisins, seed them and stew a little, and follow the [same recipe].
[RICE AND PRUNE PUDDING.]
Soak the prunes over night, stew and stone and slightly chop them and proceed as in the [other puddings]. Any kind of dried or fresh fruit may be used for this very wholesome and nutritious pudding.
[RICE FLOUR PUDDING.]
Take a quart of milk, leaving out enough to mix with three ounces of rice flour, put the rest in a saucepan over the fire. When it boils add one ounce and a half of sugar, one-half ounce of sweet and a few bitter almonds, blanched and pounded, or chopped very fine, one ounce of butter, and a small piece of vanilla bean if convenient, if not flavor at the last with vanilla extract. Mix the three ounces of rice flour with milk, reserved from the quart, and stir into the pudding. Beat one egg yolk with half a cup of cream and stir in just before removing from the fire. Turn into a mould that has been dipped in cold water and serve very cold with fruit sauce.
[RICE SOUFFLÉ COLD.]
Put into a double boiler a quarter of a pound of well washed rice, a pint and a third of milk, a small tablespoonful of butter, and cook until the rice is so stiff that it no longer adheres to the sides of the pan. Soak a heaping tablespoonful of gelatine in two tablespoonfuls of water fifteen minutes. Put a pint of thin cream or rich milk in a saucepan over the fire with two ounces of blanched and pounded almonds; while it is coming to a boil beat two egg yolks and two tablespoonfuls of granulated sugar together until light, then add the gelatine to the milk on the stove. When it has dissolved pour a little of the cream into the eggs and sugar, mix well, then turn it back into the saucepan, and stir all rapidly together until it begins to thicken, remove at once from the fire, add to the rice and beat until smooth. Rinse a mould with cold water, turn the soufflé into it and set on ice until it is wanted. Turn it out on a glass dish and serve with or without a fruit sauce.