[Sca-cooks] serving rice

[David Friedman]

On 10/23/13 2:21 PM, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Cariadoc asked:
> <<< My standard way of serving various period Islamic dishes is on top of
> rice. Urtatim recently suggested to me that that might be wrong,
> historically speaking. Checking the obvious sources, I cannot find any
> period reference to food being served that way. >>>
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> So what are the possible ways to serve rice? What ways did you find in the period recipes, Cariadoc?
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> What I can think of is:
> 1) Rice mixed in with other foods.
Very common.
> 2) Rice served as a mound by itself.
There are dishes in which the main ingredient is rice, sometimes desert 
type things that are a little like a sweetened rice pudding. But I 
didn't find any where the rice was simply cooked plain.
> 3) Rice over other foods. (Doesn't seem to make much sense from a presentation point of view)
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> As another data point, how were other grains served?
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> Is rice called out for in any soups?
>
> Thanks,
>     Stefan
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