Boiled Rice Pudding (I)

Ingredients

• 1/4 lb rice
• 1-1/2 pint new milk
• 2 oz butter
• 4 eggs
• 1/2 saltspoonful salt
• 4 large tablespoonfuls of moist sugar
• flavouring to taste

Instructions

1. Stew the rice very gently in the above proportion of new milk, and, when it is tender, pour it into a basin;
2. stir in the butter, and let it stand to cool;
3. then beat the eggs, add these to the rice with the sugar, salt, and any flavouring that may be approved, such as nutmeg, powdered cinnamon, grated lemon-peel, essence of bitter almonds, or vanilla.
4. When all is well stirred, put the pudding into a buttered basin, tie it down with a cloth, plunge it into boiling water, and boil for 1-1/4 hour.