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Cold Rice

A dessert of leftover rice topped with cold custard.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cold Rice

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the rice

  1. Mould leftover rice in small cups, filling each cup half full or less.

  2. The next day, turn the moulds bottom side up in a deep dish.

Assemble and serve

  1. Pour cold custard over the rice moulds.

  2. Serve cold for dessert.

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

Leftover rice
Forms the molded base and gives the dessert its shape and body.
Cold custard
Adds a creamy, moist layer that coats the rice.

“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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