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Rice Dumplings

Rice dumplings are made by coating boiled rice around apple cores and boiling them.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Eliza Leslie · From a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg) · 3 ingredients
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Rice Dumplings

a dozen apples

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Pick and wash a pound of rice.

  2. Boil it gently in two quarts of water until it becomes dry, keeping the pot well covered and not stirring.

  3. Take it off the fire and spread it out to cool on the bottom of an inverted sieve.

  4. Loosen the grains lightly with a fork so all moisture may evaporate.

Make and boil the dumplings

  1. Pare a dozen apples and scoop out the core.

  2. Fill the cavity with marmalade or with lemon and sugar.

  3. Cover each apple with a thick coating of the boiled rice.

  4. Tie up each in a separate cloth and put them into a pot of cold water.

  5. Boil for about an hour and a quarter after they begin to boil, perhaps longer.

  6. Turn them out onto a large dish, careful not to break the dumplings.

Serve

  1. Eat them with cream sauce, or with wine sauce, or with butter, sugar, and nutmeg beaten together.

By Eliza Leslie. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Rice
Forms the thick outer coating that holds each apple together as it cooks.
Apples (in the method)
Provide the fruit filling core that becomes soft and sweet inside the dumpling.

The step that matters

Drying the boiled rice. The rice must be cooled and loosened so excess moisture evaporates; wet rice would make the coating gummy and likely to split or fall away during boiling.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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