Little Rice Pears
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 100 g rice
- 1/2 l milk
- butter
- Parmesan cheese
- 1 egg
- 2 chicken livers
- 2 lamb sweetbreads
- prosciutto, truffles or mushrooms
- nutmeg
- breadcrumbs and egg
Instructions
- Cook the rice firm in the milk with butter; salt, cool slightly, then beat in the egg and add Parmesan.
- Stew the chicken livers and lamb sweetbreads into a delicate umido, scent with nutmeg, cut small, and mix in prosciutto and truffle or mushroom.
- Using a greased, breadcrumb-dusted tin funnel mold, half-fill with rice, add filling, top with rice, and blow out the pear shape.
- Coat the pears in egg and breadcrumbs and fry.