Indian Pilau (Miss Leisching.)

Ingredients

• 6 oz Butter
• 3 Onions
• 4 Cloves
• Cinnamon
• 4 Cardamom Seeds
• 12 Peppercorns
• 2 Hard-boiled Eggs
• 0.75 lb White Rice
• Bacon
• 1 young Fowl
• 1 pint Stock or Gravy
• 1 pint Water

Instructions

1. Put all the spices (cloves, cinnamon, cardamom seeds, peppercorns) into a muslin bag.
2. Slice the onions very fine and fry to a nice brown in the butter.
3. Add the stock and the well-mashed white rice, along with a few slices of bacon or corned pork.
4. Put all into a flat saucepan and cover with one pint of water, taking care to have two inches of gravy above the rice.
5. When the rice is all but done, add a boiled fowl (nicely trussed) in the middle of the rice.
6. Cover the pot and let it simmer until the rice is nice and dry.
7. Remove the bag of spices.
8. Serve with the rice all round the fowl, garnished with hard-boiled eggs and slices of bacon.