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[madbaker]

Work is incredibly busy. This is a good thing, because it means we're getting more business (= income). But it's interfering with all the other things I want/need to do, especially my Erinwood menus.
With that in mind, here's a Resolution Recipe that didn't take much thought: Rice in the Turkish Style.

Take one and half pounds of rice that does not have a bad smell and wash well with hot water, and then put to dry and clean it. Then take 8.8 pounds of good milk of cow, and put it in a pot well-tinned on a three-legged stand to the fire, and put inside named rice with a pound of very white sugar and make it to boil, always stirring with a wooden spatula for half an hour. Then put a half-pound of butter inside and a small amount of rose-water, and when it is ready for the banquet, you shall put over it the sugar. [Garnish with sugar.]

Messisbugo, Cristoforo. Libro novo nel qual s'insegna a' far d'ogni sorte di vivanda (aka Messisbugo). Charles A. Potter, trans. 2004.

2 cups rice
4 cups milk
3-4 Tbsp sugar
2 Tbsp butter
1 tsp rose-water
Sugar for garnish

Add the rice and milk in a pot with the sugar. Bring to a boil and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes; let stand for 20 minutes. Mix in the butter and rose-water, and sprinkle a bit more sugar over the top before serving.

What worked: It was about what I expected. Sweet, bland, starchy filling.

What didn't: I might up the rose-water a bit.

Will I make it again? You betcha.

Comments

[serendipity17.livejournal.com]

What's the final consistency? (Presumably this might change with the rice variety used.) This +cardamom +cashews would be kheer, yeah?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Pudding rice, we presume? (And I note the original has much more milk to rice than you do, unless there's a misprint in there somewhere...)

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

mmm, rice pudding

[serendipity17.livejournal.com]

Converting, the original wants 3.5 cups of rice and 16 cups of milk.

Those 8.8 lb milk could also be used to make 14 oz cheese.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

You're right, although the 16th c. Italian pound only has 12 ounces so the differential is less.

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if you didn't bother converting because all the stated measures were in pounds.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

"Being lazy" and/or "busy".