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 cold milk into a saucepan on a hot stove, and when it boils add half a pound of well-cleaned rice and let it cook slowly for twenty minutes, stirring frequently to the bottom with a spatula. Then set the saucepan in a cool place for thirty minutes. Add six ounces of powdered sugar ; mix well for one minute, and break in three whole eggs ; flavor with eight drops of orange-flower water, mixing well together for three minutes longer. Take a quarter of a pound of pie-paste (No. 1077), roll it out very thin, and with it line a three-pint, round, channeled mold ; fill it with the preparation, and place it in a moderate oven to bake for forty minutes. Remove, and let it become thoroughly cold, which will take an hour. Then unmold, and lay the cake over a round pastry - grate. Have a quarter of a pound of vanilla eclair glazing (No. 1245), put it in a saucepan, adding a teaspoon-ful of cold water. Place it on the hot range, and with a spatula mix it gently and thoroughly until it becomes lukewarm ; then pour it over the cake. Arrange the cake on a dessert-dish, and serve.
 
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