The Skilful Cook / A Practical Manual of Modern Experience

by Mary Harrison

Wash the rice, and boil it in the meat liquor with the chopped onion until tender.

Add pepper and salt to taste.

Cheese Sandwiches.

• Ingredients—¼ lb. of grated cheese.
• The yolks of 3 hard-boiled eggs.
• 4 slices of buttered bread.
• 1 oz. of butter.
• Pepper and salt.
• A little cayenne.

Method.—Beat the yolks well with the butter; add the cheese and seasoning. Spread the mixture on the two pieces of buttered bread, and place the others over.

Rice Stewed with Cheese.

• Ingredients—½ lb. of rice.
• 2½ pints of water.
• 1 pint of milk.
• 2 oz. of grated cheese.
• Pepper and salt.

Method.—Boil the rice gently in the water for half an hour, then add the milk and cheese and boil gently for half an hour more.

Stewed Normandy Pippins.

• Ingredients—1 lb. of pippins.
• 1 quart of water.
• 6 oz. of lump sugar.