It is also enjoyed by a large part of the world as a dessert. In pudding form to be specific. As i'm not really a fan, i've never attempted to make rice pudding. However i do recognize that it is a popular dessert and even though there are pre-made varieties available i also recognize that there are some cooks who like to make rice pudding from scratch. Once again i will use The Southern Cookbook as my recipe resource. i was intrigued with the varieties of rice pudding recipes. i was also tickled by the instructions for the "plain rice pudding" recipe which begins with hand picking the rice to be used as the primary ingredient. Had kind of a 'Forest Gump' moment as i came across the different recipes. You know when he's talking about the different kinds of shrimp recipes his company had.
But back to the matter at hand---rice pudding.
Plain Rice Pudding
Wash and pick some rice; throw among it some pimento finely pounded, but not much; tie the rice in a cloth, and leave plenty of room for it to swell. Boil it in a quantity of water for an hour or two. When done, eat it with butter and sugar, or milk. Put lemon-peel if you please.
It is very good without spice, and eaten with salt and butter.
The Southern Cookbook yielded six different rice pudding recipes. i figured i'd find maybe two or three at most. The one that i think has a strong possibility of making me a rice pudding convert is rice pudding with currants raisins apples and gooseberries---appropriately named "rice pudding with fruit". And speaking of naming recipes who knew there was a rice pudding recipe with a proper name? i am of course referring to the "George [Rice] Pudding"
 | A George Pudding Boil very tender a handful of whole rice in a small quantity of milk, with a large piece of lemon-peel. Let it drain; then mix with it a dozen of good sized apples, boiled to pulp, and as dry as possible. Add a glass of white wine, the yolks of five eggs, and two ounces of orange and citron cut thin; make it pretty sweet. Line a mould or basin with a very good paste: beat the whites of the five eggs to a very strong froth, and mix with the other ingredients: fill the mould, and bake it of a fine brown color. Serve it with the bottom upward, with the following sauce: two glasses of wine, a spoonful of sugar, the yolks of two eggs, and a bit of butter as large as a walnut, simmer without boiling, and pour to and from the saucepan, till of a proper thickness, and put it in the dish. |
Soak four ounces of rice in warm water half an hour: drain the latter from it, and throw it into stewpan, with half a pint of milk, half a stick of cinnamon, and simmer till tender. When cold, add four whole eggs well beaten, two ounces of butter melted in a teaspoonful of cream; and put three ounces of sugar, a quarter of a nutmeg, and a good piece of lemon-peel.
Put a light puff paste into a mould or dish, or grated tops and bottoms, and bake in a quick oven.
Rice Small Puddings
Wash two large spoonfuls of rice, and simmer it with half a pint of milk till thick. Then put with it the size of an egg of butter, and nearly a half a pint of thick cream, and give it «ne boil. When cool, mix four yolks and two whites of eggs well beaten; sweeten to taste, add nutmeg, lemon-peel grated fine, and a little cinnamon powdered.
Butter little cups, and fill three parts full, and putting at the bottom some orange or citron. Bake three quarters of an hour in a slow oven. Serve the moment before to be eaten, with sweet sauce in the dish, or a boat.
Rice Pudding With Fruit
Swell the rice with a very little milk over the fire; then mix fruit of any kind with it, (currants ; gooseberries scalded; pared and quartered apples; raisins, or black currants:) with one egg into the rice, to bind it. Boil it well, and serve with sugar.
Baked Rice Pudding
Swell rice as above; then add some more milk, an egg, sugar, allspice and lemon-peel. Bake in a deep dish.
Another, for the Family
Put into a very deep pan half a pound of rice, washed and picked, two ounces of butter, four ounces of sugar, a few allspices pounded, and two quarts of milk. Less butter will do, or some suet. Bake in a slow oven.
Note—Eggs in rice pudding, if made of whole rice, causes the milk to turn to whey if not boiled first, and then mixed cool.
Text Credit: The Southern Cookbook: "a manual of cooking and list of menus, including recipes used by noted colored cooks and prominent caterers"
Recipes compiled by S.Thomas Bivins Published by Press of the Hampton Institute, 1912
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