The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-09
4 MALTREATED VEGETABLE.
BY Marion Harland.
TCOpyright.1

. Down in the bottom of her candid
Joul the average housekeeper Of the mid
de and northern states despises rice as a
vegetable. She has decided idea that
1t is good for sick people, shadowy no
ton that, eaten with milk, it is not amiss
upon the nursery table, and a sort of
patronizing respect for rice pudding
as standby on wash day and while the
house cleaning fever is at its height
Culinary education of a higher order
than she is likely to gain in her ordinary
walk of life is required to induce her to
give the respectable edible equal foot
ing with beans, parsnips and onions
much less the tyrant potato. who holds
his insolent own upon palace, and upon
cottage tables.
We are less inclined to intolerance
with our housewives Ignorance because
she knows next to nothing of what she
despises. Rice, as a grayish paste, sticky
and insipid, or watery and repulsive. does
not commend itself to eye or palate
The extreme probability is that our critic
has never been fortunate enough to see
"a dish Of this most valuable of Yegeta-
bles properly cooked and served. Yet,
as with making tea and toast, and wash
ing dishes, the right way is so simple
that the wayfaring cook, though fool,
ought never to err therein. That she
does, in every ninety-nine and a-half-
out of every hundred cases, is one of the
enigmas of the American kitchen which
1 despair Of solving in the course of one
short life,
1 have already entered protest
against the popular judgment of what
have called our gentle cereal." 1t
gives me genuine satisfaction to reit-
crate it upon page that will fall under
1.-THE eye Of half-a-million readers.
hereby beg for fair examination of its
merits and careful test of these by means
of few of the many methods known at
the South and abroad for bringing out
the best qualities Of what is the main
food Of one-third of the human race"
TO BOIL RICE.
Wash and pick over a cup of raw rice,
and pour clear water upon it in a fine col
ander. Have ready three quarts of wa
ter, slightly sailed and brought to a fast
boil ard dron tho rica into n b,,bI,Ii,,sr
NOT NV the loose bandfui Roll unco,y7
cred, and hard for twenty minutes;
wbsn soft turn into the coIandar sbaIre
nm gently ana cat in the Oman o1,e,, ~ H.
for tvvo n,3,,1,re,s before disbino,it No.
touch II viii sroo,, i,s o,,,,,i,,o,
sTEAMED RTcE
Wash carefully balf-aCcnnfr1 90 20 y,
rice and t,,rn into f.rir,of l-a++1o. aa,s
ona c,r,f,,i ~ oiIfr o.
81 ana cool cIosaiy, oc,,aro7 80, oa.l,
grain i tender vhita ia ,,,ff- 80,
the water In fba ortar lrattIa 81 fI,,i rs
hoil n hale a., bo,,. a., 60 az 49,, 49,
te,, in tho inne,. boila,. s,ho,,I5 ~
eorhed Inv fbe rico mr., ,,1a,+ 49,
ana sa,va ,,1ai,, ~ I7ress.1 ~
soroe ono of the fol1o1,,i,,er
RTITTERED p1CE
Eeat a tablespoo,f,,l of t,,++o,. i,
saucenan hut ~ not le+ a bro1,,,, Aaa
half-a-fea snoonf,,l Of or;on-i,1ioa ~
littIa nenner and calf oool, o,a 49,
and nonr nnon tha rios tossina ttis ,,itt.
a forl 70 Iot +ba t,,4to "a
ereat snoonfnI Of pe,.,1as go o,..,- q
n1al,as n vet moro sa,,o,,,,
On
pour over Tho hot d,.v r;oo -
o,,rf,,l of s+roi,ea
which has heer stir,..d :,
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