This is what I'm eating right now - well, I suppose technically this picture is from last week, but I am eating rice pudding from the same recipe in the same bowl with whipped cream and sugar cinnamon on top so I consider it close enough to not bother taking a new picture - it's so creamy and good. I like it best still warm but it's good cold too (and pretty awesome for breakfast).

I used the Creamy Rice Pudding recipe from The All New Purity Cook Book (2001 reprint). This is one of my favourite cookbooks. It's got my stand-by regular bread recipe and  the best tiny thimble cookies you could imagine. There are a bunch of other puddings (I really want to try the Lemon Fluff) and cakes and cookies as well as main course dishes, sandwiches and preserve recipes (and tips of cooking for large groups and parties). It's one of those books that doesn't really have any pictures (and none of them are in colour) but that's okay because you don't really need them anyway.


I searched around on the internet and found a wide variety of rice pudding recipes but none quite like this. It's basically a custard with cooked rice in it. The colour comes from the eggs I used (very yellow yolks).


We like to add about half a cup of raisins and I used some of our fancy Mexican vanilla (brought back by a friend a few years ago and much stronger and more caramelly than regular vanilla).


Creamy Rice Pudding
from The All New Purity Cook Book (2001 reprint of the original 1967 publication)

Combine in top of double boiler
1 1/2 cups cooked rice
1 cup milk
2 slightly-beaten eggs
1/3 cup sugar
Cook over simmering water, stirring constantly, until mixture coats a metal spoon.
Remove from heat.
Add
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/3 cup raisins, currents or chopped dates
Pour into serving bowl and allow to stand, without stirring, for 30 minutes.
Serve warm or chilled, with cream.
Yield: 5 to 6 servings.


My pot has quite a heavy bottom so I tend to skip the double boiler part and just use a slightly lower temperature and watch it like a hawk. When they say "stirring constantly" they are not kidding. If you walk away from this for any length of time weird things will happen.

I plan to try the chopped dates sometime