Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Minestra alla Casalinga Ingredients: Rice, butter, stock, vegetables. All sorts of vegetables will serve for this dish. Blanch them in boiling salted water, then drain and fry them in butter. Add plenty of good stock, and put them on a slow fire. Boil four ounces of rice in stock, and when it is well done add the stock with the vegetables. Season with two or three spoonsful of condiment for seasoning minestrone, and serve with grated cheese handed separately. See also: Wikipedia Cookbook. Source: ''The Cook's Decameron: A Study In Taste, Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes'' from a project that puts out-of-copyright texts into the public domain. This is from a *very* old source, and reflects the cooking at the turn of the last century. Update as necessary. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.