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PILAU, INDIAN (another way)

Boil a chicken and two pounds of bacon in the usual way. Take them up; to keep in the heat as much as possible, lay them on a hot dish, and cover with a cloth doubled in five or six thicknesses. Boil up again two pints of the chicken broth, and put with it two small onions, six cloves, six peppercorns, and three allspice, and half a pound of rice. Simmer gently for three-quarters of an hour, or until the rice is tender, but unbroken. Lift out the onions and the bag containing the spices, put in the fowl to make it quite hot, place it on a dish, and pile the rice smoothly over it. Send the bacon to table on a separate dish. The bacon should be boiled in the same liquid as the fowl, in order to season it. Time to boil the chicken, according to size. Sufficient for three or four persons. Probable cost, 4s. 6d., with a chicken at 2s. 6d.