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Default Spanish rice with cloves? What are the roots of this recipe?

Correction - it came from the current printing of the 1953 edition. I got
that one because that's what edition we've always used and the one we got
recipes from.

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Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX

"Dora Smith" > wrote in message
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> It came from Better Homes and Gardens! New cookbook, p 174. It's the
> current edition. I just bought it (replacing my old one). It's in the
> lower right corner of the page, under company spanish rice.
>
> I didn't find it there last night because I couldn't find page 174. The
> pages must have been stuck together. It;s teh looseleaf binder edition,
> so I was about to request a lookup from someone who has page 174.
>
> Spanish-rice Skillet
>
> 4 slices bacon
> 1 cup chopped onion.
> 1/4 cup chopped greenpepper
> 2 10 1/2 or 11 oz cans condensed tomato soup
> 1/2 cup rice
> 1/2 cup water
> 4 whole cloves ****
> 1 bay leaf
> 1/2 tsp salt
>
> Cut bacon in small pieces, fry until crisp in heavy skillet, remove bacon.
>
> Cook onion and green pepper in bacon fat until golden. Add remaining
> ingredients, cover tightly and cook slowly 50 minutes. Stir occasionally.
> Remove cloves and bay leaf; sprinkle crisp bacon over top. Makes 5 - 6-
> servings.
>
> So now that we know where my mother got it, where did it really come from?
>
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> Yours,
> Dora Smith
> Austin, TX
>

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