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from Aunt Pit's Recipe Box

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Spanish Rice

 
 

 

 
 

3/4 cup rice
2 tablespoons butter
5 cups boiling water
2 small onions
2 cups tomatoes
1/2 green pepper
salt
pepper
paprika
butter.

Fry the rice in butter until brown

add the boiling water and cook till soft about 20 min.

drain

Saute the onions which have been sliced thin in a little butter

mix with the tomato and chopped green pepper

add mixture to rice

add seasoning to taste

and turn into a buttered casserole

Bake 30 min. in moderate oven.

Serve at once.

 

Sometimes Aunt Pit didn't tell us the exact oven temperatures. Here's a cheat sheet.
Cool oven 250°F
Slow oven 250–350°F
Moderate oven 350–375°F
Hot oven 375–450°F

 

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