Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-01-07

Various Ways OF Cooking Hice.
Rice Dishes OF Italy.-The rice dishes
OF Italy are popular and delicious, so
mike our own well-krown ores tina.
We urge trial Of their excellence npon
cur readers. Chief amcng them rank
tie rizotto OF Milan and the cream OF
rice and chicken. The rizltto is made
by par-b0iling weil-washei rice iii boil
ing water for tive minutes, draining and
dryirg it on a cloth, frying it light
brown with little chopped ouion and
butter, and then stewiug it until tender,
in enough highly seasoned broth to
well cover it: it has to be watched
closely, AMI the saucepan shaken rs the
rice absorbs the broth, SO that it shall
not burn; when TIE rico is done it ia
put into buttcred mold with shreds Of
cold chicken, tongue or ham, well
shaken down, busted with grated
cheese and Drowned in the oven. Slices
Of mushroom or little tomato sauce
are used as variations from the chicken
or tongue. The cream of rice is made
by boiling the breast of fowl and u
cup Of rice in chicken broth until soft
enough to rub through fine sieve; the
paste thus formed is used to thicken
boiling milk, seasoned with salt, pepper
and nutmeg, to the consistency of .hicl;
cream; it is one of the most delicious
and nutritious Of all soups. Hizotto is
prepared with sausages in the north Of
Italy in very appetizing dish. The
sausages are twisted, without breaking
the skin, in inch pieces and fried brown
the rice is washed, boiled for five min
utes in boiling water, drained and dried
and then Drowned in the sausage fat
with chopped onion; last of all these
ingredients are stewed in highly sea.
soned broth until the rice is tender and
has absorbed all the broth, enough
being used to well cover 1t when it is
set to stew.
Spanish Rice Dishes. The rice dishes
OF Spain are more highly favored with
garlic than those of Italy, but the
native palate calls for the abundance OF
this pungent bulb. The rice is washed,
boiled and Drowned in butter, little
garlic being substituted for the onion
then two large, ripe tomatoes, q spoon
full of grated cheese, and penty of
Spanish red pepper, or pemiente, is
added, and the rice simmereI till tender
in u little broth; sometimes it is served
with slices OF ham. bacon, sausage,
smoked salmon or dried fish, any one of
these being stewed with the rice. Polio
con arroz is made in the same way,
morsels Of fowls being substituted for
the meat, and the seasoning being
varied with warm spices.
Rice Dishes Of Portugal.-A mattel
lotte OF fish with rice is we'll worth a
trial. Some highly favored fish, such
as cells, is fried brown in oil or bacon
fat. with Glove of garlic, tablespoon
full of saffron, and penty Of red pepper
and salt; then rice partly boiled and
dried is aided and Drowned, enough
red wine is poured over these ingredi.
ents to cover them, and they are al.
lowed to simmer gently until the rice is
tender, the saucepan being shaken to
prevent the burning Of the rice.
A Portuguese dish of sweet rice is
prepared as follows: a cupful of rice is
washed and boiled till soft in pint and
half OF milk, with four tablespoonfuls
OF sugar and laurel or bay leaf; when
the rice is soft the bay leaf is removed,
gill of cream aud the yolks of four
eggs added. and the rice is dished and
cooled. When it is quite cold the snr-
face is busted with powdered sugar and
cinnamon, or with burnt-almond dust.
The almond dust is prepared by brown.
ing peeled or blanched almonds in the
oven and then pounding them to fine
powder.-MIss CoRsoN.
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TEA-ToTA1 SUCCESS The commits.
sioner of agriculture has triunphed
over those who have been laughing at
him for his efforts in introducing tea
culture into the U. S. Mr.. Jackson
sharing his enthusiasm, has IS 900 tea.
plants on his farm in Georgia, and
lately sent some OF his tea to Washing
ton. The commissioner went incog., to
several New York tea-houses and pre-.
sented it as a sample of tea he had to
sell. An expert pronounced it India
tea, worth so cts., and would hardly
believe him when told that it was grown
in this country and would be produced
for one third that sum. Gen. LeDuc
says that in few years this country
will produce all the tea an sugar used,
with surplus to export"