Little Rice Pears

Origin: Florence, Italy

Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cook the rice firm in the milk with butter; salt, cool slightly, then beat in the egg and add Parmesan.
  2. Stew the chicken livers and lamb sweetbreads into a delicate umido, scent with nutmeg, cut small, and mix in prosciutto and truffle or mushroom.
  3. Using a greased, breadcrumb-dusted tin funnel mold, half-fill with rice, add filling, top with rice, and blow out the pear shape.
  4. Coat the pears in egg and breadcrumbs and fry.

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