Put two cups full of rice in a bowl of water, rub it well with the hand,
and pour off the water; do this until the water ceases to be
discoloured; then put the rice into two and a half cups of cold water;
add a tea-spoonful of salt, cover the pot close, and set it on a brisk
fire; let it boil ten minutes, pour off the greater part of the water,
and remove the pot to a bed of coals, where it must remain a quarter of
an hour to soak and dry.
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RICE JOURNEY, OR JOHNNY CAKE.
Boil a pint of rice quite soft, with a tea-spoonful of salt; mix with it
while hot a large spoonful of butter, and spread it on a dish to cool;
when perfectly cold, add a pint of rice flour and half a pint of
milk--beat them all together till well mingled. Take the middle part of
the head of a barrel, make it quite clean, wet it, and put on the
mixture about an inch thick, smooth with a spoon, and baste it with a
little milk; set the board aslant before clear coals; when sufficiently
baked, slip a thread under the cake and turn it: baste and bake that
side in a similar manner, split it, and butter while hot. Small homony
boiled and mixed with rice flour, is better than all rice; and if baked
very thin, and afterwards toasted and buttered, it is nearly as good as
cassada bread.
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