[Sca-cooks] Re: rice pudding & marrow

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Devra at aol.com wrote:

> Opps - it was grated beef suet they called for--sorry.  But here's the recipe
> anyway.
>     From To The Queen's Taste
>
>         Rice Pudding
> Take halfe a pound of Rice, and steep it in new Milk a whole night, and in
> the morning drain it, and let the milk drop away, and take a quart of the
> best, sweetest, and thickest Cream, and put the Rice into it, and boyl it a
> little.  Then set it to cool an hour or two, and after put in the yolkes of
> half a dozen Eggs, a little Pepper, Cloves, mace, Currants, Dates, Sugar, and
> Salt, and having mixt them well together, put in great store of Beef suet
> well beaten, and small shred, and so put it into the frams, and boyl them as
> well before shewed, and serve them after a day old.
>         Gervase Markham, The English Hous-wife
>
> 1/2 C white rice
> 3 C milk
> 1 C heavy cream
> 2 egg yolks
> 1/2 C brown sugar
> generous 1/8 t salt
> 1/8 t white pepper
> 1/8 t cloves
> 1/8 t mace
> 1/4 C currants
> 1/4 C pitted, minced dates
> 2 T butter or grated suet
>
> 1. Combine rice and milk in a heavy enameled pot.  Bring to a gentle boil.
> Cover pot. Reduce heat and simmer about 30 minutes or until rice is soft.
> Drain off excess milk if you wish.
>
> 2. Add cream and bring to a boil.  Reduce heat and simmer for 2-3 minutes.
> Remove from heat.
>
> 3. In a bowl, combine remaining ingredients and blend thoroughly.
>
> 4. Add mixture to rice and stir to distribute evenly.
>
> 5. Cover and cook for 5 minutes over LOW heat.
>
> 6. Serve warm or chilled.  Serves 6 (HA)
>
> I might decrease the sugar and increase the spices a touch now that I'm older
> and my taste is not as sharp as it used to be...  Soak the currants in a
> little warm water if they're too hard and dry...
> Devra

So, do you think Lorna Sass has missed the fact that these are supposed
to be white-pudding-type sausages, or just figured it would be easier to
handle this way? For whatever reason, she seems to have shifted the
ingredients and method away from a white-pudding recipe toward a more
standard dessert-type rice pudding recipe. Which is not to say it
wouldn't be good that way... .

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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