Name: Prune Snowballs
Ingredients: 2-3 cups boiled rice; 3 cooked and stoned prunes; sweetener to taste

Prune Snowballs

Ingredients

2-3 cups boiled rice
3 cooked and stoned prunes
sweetener to taste

Directions

Prepare

Grease small molds or custard cups.

Assemble and steam

Spread boiled rice, slightly sweetened, ½ inch thick in the molds.
Place 3 prunes on the rice and cover with more rice.
Steam for 10 minutes.

Serve

Serve hot with thickened prune juice.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

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What each ingredient does

Boiled rice: Forms the outer shell that holds the shape of each snowball while steaming.
Prunes: Provide a soft, sweet, fruity filling at the centre of each snowball.

“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.