Boil half a cupful of rice until soft in milk to cover, sweetening and flavoring to taste.
"The Myrtle Reed Cook Book"
Myrtle Reed
No sweetening, if you please.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
But truly I had no remembering of this thing, and did look at her awhile, with somewhat of a trouble upon me; for, that there should be aught lacking in my memory of those times that we did be together upon this world, was a fear unto me, and a vague sorrow alway, if that I did but to let my thought go that way; though, indeed, I did ever strive to wiseness, and did have knowledge that there doth be an heart-wearing and despair and needless trouble in vain regrets; but yet these to be natural unto the spirit, if that you to know love; and do be but the complement of the love-joy, and mayhap to have a use unto the sweetening of the spirit, if that they be not let to over-ride the reason.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson