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Holiday recipes from Charleston Receipts, the nation’s oldest Junior League cookbook, published in 1950 and now in its thirty-fifth printing.

Cook Time:1 hours15 min

Prep Time:30 min

Total Time:1 hours45 min

Servings: 8

Ingredients:

1 Can tomato paste

1 1/2 - 2 cup water

2 onions, chopped fine

3 teaspoon salt

2-3 teaspoon sugar

4 Strips bacon, cubed

8 tablespoon bacon grease

Dash of pepper

2 cup raw rice

Preparation:

Fry bacon, remove from pan; sauté onions in grease; add tomato paste, water, salt, sugar and pepper.

Cook uncovered slowly (about 10 minutes) until mixture measures 2 cups, then add it to rice in top section of steamer.

Add the 1/2 cup additional grease; steam for 1/2 hour, then add bacon, crumbled, and stir with a fork.

Cook 30-45 minutes longer.