This section is from the book "The Table: How To Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It", by Alessandro Filippini. Also available from Amazon: The Table: How To Buy Food, How To Cook It And How To Serve It.
Boil one pint of milk with one pint of water. When boiling, add four ounces of well-cleaned rice. Boil twenty-five minutes, stirring at the bottom every three minutes with a spatula. Set the saucepan on a table; add half a saltspoonful of salt, four ounces of powdered sugar, and six drops of orange-flower water. Mix well for one minute, break in three whole eggs, and stir again for two minutes. Arrange the rice nicely in a hot dessert-dish, keeping it high in the centre, and decorate with twelve pieces of stewed peaches (No. 1332), two ounces of dried currants (No. 1080), and one ounce of candied angelica cut in small lozenge-shaped pieces; beginning with the peaches on the top, and arranging the remainder of the fruit around.
 
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