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.
Put a pint of milk in a saucepan on the stove. When boiling, add three ounces of well-cleaned rice and half a saltspoonful of salt. Let cook for twenty minutes, adding one ounce of butter. Mix for one minute ; then remove from the fire, and let it cool off for thirty minutes. Add the yolks of two eggs. Beat the whites to a froth in a basin with a wire whip, and add them to the rice. Sweeten with three ounces of powdered sugar and flavor with a teaspoonful of orange-flower water. Mix well together for five minutes. Peel and core four sound Newtown pippin apples, and cut in slices about the thickness of a silver dollar. Butter the sides of a saucepan lightly ; then cover the bottom with a layer of the prepared rice half an inch thick ; put a layer of sliced apples over this, and so dispose of all the apples and rice in alternate layers. Put on the lid, and put the saucepan into a moderate oven for fifteen minutes. Remove, dress on a hot dish, and serve.
 
Continue to: