Glorified rice
{{short description|Dessert from the American Midwest}}
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| caption = Glorified rice at a supermarket in Minnesota
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| country = United States
| region = Minnesota and the Upper Midwest
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| course = Dessert
| served = Cold
| main_ingredient = Rice, crushed pineapple, whipped cream
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Glorified rice is a dessert salad popular in the Midwestern cuisine served in Minnesota and other states in the Upper Midwest, United States{{cite book | last=Fertig | first=J. | title=Prairie Home Cooking: 400 Recipes that Celebrate the Bountiful Harvests, Creative Cooks, and Comforting Foods of the American Heartland | publisher=Harvard Common Press | series=America Cooks | year=2011 | isbn=978-1-55832-145-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eEMyNDQP4VEC&pg=PA223 | access-date=December 22, 2017 | page=223}} and other places with Norwegian populations.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} It is popular in more rural areas with sizable Lutheran populations of Scandinavian heritage.{{Citation needed|date=June 2020}} It is made from rice, crushed pineapple, and whipped cream.{{cite book | last=Thielen | first=A. | title=The New Midwestern Table: 200 Heartland Recipes | publisher=Potter/TenSpeed/Harmony | year=2013 | isbn=978-0-307-95488-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FR4mdgGakQ8C&pg=PA332 | access-date=December 22, 2017 | page=332}}{{cite book | title=Rice Journal | issue=v. 22 | year=1919 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCVLAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA27 | access-date=December 22, 2017 | page=27}}{{Cite book |last=Associated Rice Millers of California, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=froVAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Glorified+rice%22&pg=RA4-PA24 |title=The Bullseye, Volumes 2-3 |date=1984 |editor= |location=New Orleans, LA |pages=24 |access-date=December 26, 2009}} It is often decorated with maraschino cherries.Our Savior's Lutheran Church (1879-2004) 125 Years cookbook{{Page needed|date=September 2010}}
History
The long-established recipe has been the subject of many newspaper articles.{{Cite web|title=Google News Archive of Glorified Rice stories|url=https://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&tab=wn&ned=us&q=glorified+rice&ie=UTF-8|access-date=January 26, 2009}} In 1995, Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann Nelson authored a humorous book comparing Lutheran and Catholic traditions called They Glorified Mary…We Glorified Rice: A Catholic–Lutheran Lexicon.{{Cite book|title=Amazon entry on They Glorified Mary, We Glorify Rice|isbn=0961343745|last1=Martin|first1=Janet Letnes|last2=Nelson|first2=Suzann|date=May 1995|publisher=Redbird Productions }}{{Cite web|title=Excerpt from text at Lutheransonline.com|url=http://www.lutheransonline.com/lo/981/FSLO-1183042981-111981.doc|access-date=January 26, 2009|archive-date=May 27, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527021230/http://www.lutheransonline.com/lo/981/FSLO-1183042981-111981.doc|url-status=dead}} The book includes a recipe for glorified rice. The dish is also included in the title of Carrie Young's Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Recipes and Reminiscences.{{Cite book|title=Amazon entry on Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Recipes and Reminiscences by Carrie Young |isbn=0060927763|last1=Young|first1=Carrie|date=7 May 1997|publisher=HarperCollins }} Glorified rice often turns up at potlucks and church picnics.{{Cite web|title=SIGN OF SPRING: GLORIFIED RICE February 25, 1998 St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN)|url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PD&s_site=twincities&p_multi=SP&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB5E29624279F5E&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |access-date= January 26, 2009}}{{cite book | last=Wyman | first=C. | title=Jell-O: a biography | publisher=Harcourt | series=Harvest Original | year=2001 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gYogAQAAIAAJ | access-date=December 22, 2017 | page=125| isbn=9780156011235 }}
See also
- Jello salad
- Watergate salad
- Snickers salad
- Cookie salad
- Midwestern cuisine
- Ambrosia (fruit salad)
- Risalamande, similar dish in Danish and other Scandinavian cuisine
- List of salads
References
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