Take one pound of RICE, steep it in cold water for at least one
hour, (longer would be better;) then put it into boiling water, and,
if previously steeped enough, it will be sufficiently boiled in
about five minutes; then pour off the water, and dry it on the fire,
as in cooking potatoes.
Use it with the following gravy or sauce: two or three ounces of
mutton suet, fried with onions until done enough; then add some
flour and water, (as in making gravy,) with salt and about as much
Cayenne pepper, as will lie on a sixpence, (or twelve and a half
cent piece;) the different ingredients, however, may be varied to
the taste.
At the present wholesale prices of RICE, the above would only cost
about three pence, (a fraction more than _five and a half cents_,)
and would be sufficient meal for _a family of six persons_.
I will merely add, that having eaten of the food prepared in exact
conformity with the foregoing directions, it was found by no means
unpalatable.