Republican pudding

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
1 cup Soft boiled rice
1 pint Milk
1 cup Sugar
3 Eggs
1 Piece of butter the size of an egg

Directions

Continuing the Rice Pudding thread (have you noticed, I just keeeeep gooooing). I found these very old versions in a little book I have called Cooking for the Cause (the "War of Northern Aggression" :-), in case you didn't know). Writen by Patricia Mitchell, it is among many published by the Sims-Mitchell House B&B in Chatham, VA. They, in turn reference the 1863 Confederate Receipt Book. Earlier I posted the version that included raisins which would have pleased USG.

SWEETS AND BEVERAGES

Even in the midst of deprivation, Southerners managed to somewhat appease their sweet tooth, Useful rice made a wholesome dessert, said to have been a favorite of Ulysses S. (Grant! South of the Mason-Dixon line this is how the dish was prepared:

"Take one cup of soft boiled rice, a pint of milk,'a cup of sugar, three eggs, and a piece of butter the size of an egg. Serve with sauce" Both are from: Confederate Receipt Book; a Compilation of Over one Hundred Receipts Adapted to the Times, West and Johnston, Richmond, VA, 1963, reprinted by the University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1960.

Posted to EAT-L Digest 07 Jan 97 From: Lou Parris <lbparris@...> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 22:45:51 -0600

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