Rice Pudding

Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.

Double-boiler fruit pudding with Red Sauce

Timing: one hr.

Equipment: double boiler; glass bowl

Bring to a boil! Add: 1 scant tablespoon cornstarch mixed with a little cold water.
Bring to a boil, remove from fire at once. Add sugar to taste: 1 teaspoon vanilla.
If canned fruit is used no sugar is needed.

Wash rice quickly in I or 2 waters and drain.
Mix ingredients except butter and pour into a well buttered baking pan or dish.
Bake 2½ hours in a very slow oven, stir every fifteen minutes for first hour to prevent rice from settleing.
Add butter at t ime of last stirring.
Serve with sweet cream, flavored as desired or with nutmeg.

Timing: 2½ hours; every fifteen minutes for first hour

Temperature: very slow oven

Equipment: well buttered baking pan or dish; very slow oven

[stained quantity and measure] rice; [stained quantity and measure] water; 3 tablespoon butter,
2 cups rich milk
3 tablespoons sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt

Wash rice quickly in one or 2 waters and drain.
Mix ingredients except butter and pour into a a well buttered baking pan or dish; bake 2½ hours in a very slow oven; stir every fifteen minutes for first hour to prevent rice from settling, add butter at time of last stirring.
Serve with sweet Cream, flavored as desired, or with nutmeg.

Timing: 2½ hours; every fifteen minutes for first hour

Temperature: a very slow oven

Equipment: baking pan or dish

Mrs. Growson Kellogg box double-boiler card: 1/2 cup rice and 1 quart rich milk with egg, sugar, vanilla, dried currants or drained cherries, and optional candied orange peel
Old Binder typed page 3(E) card: 1/2 cup rice, 3 cups water, 2 cups rich milk, sugar, salt, and butter, with no egg or fruit

Mrs. Growson Kellogg box double-boiler card: Scald the rice, cook it in a double boiler for one hour, cool and add the remaining ingredients, then hold over gentle heat
Old Binder typed page 3(E) card: Wash the rice, bake it in a very slow oven for 2 1/2 hours, stir every fifteen minutes during the first hour, and add butter at the last stirring

Mrs. Growson Kellogg box double-boiler card: Serve in a glass bowl with browned chopped almonds; pass Cinnamon, sugar, and the separately written Red Sauce
Old Binder typed page 3(E) card: Serve with sweet cream flavored as desired, or with nutmeg

Mrs. Growson Kellogg box damaged handwritten card: The left ends of the rice and water lines are physically obscured
Old Binder typed page 3(E) card: 1/2 cup rice and 3 cups water are fully visible

Mrs. Growson Kellogg box damaged handwritten card: one or 2 waters; pour into a a well buttered baking pan or dish; settling
Old Binder typed page 3(E) card: I or 2 waters; pour into a well buttered baking pan or dish; settleing; t ime

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