Americana Hotel Rice Pudding

Total Time: 1 hr 50 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 cups milk, scalded
• 1 large orange
• 1/2 cup long grain rice
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup light cream
• 2 egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Recipe

• 1 scald milk in a bowl sitting over a pot of very hot, not boiling, water.
• 2 pare the orange like an apple, going round and round so that the peel is in one long spiral.
• 3 add the orange peel, rice, sugar and salt to the scalded milk.
• 4 cook, covered, over the hot water or over a low flame until the rice is tender - usually 20-30 minutes.
• 5 stir with a wooden spoon occasionally during the first part of the cooking.
• 6 remove the peel.
• 7 combine cream and egg yolks well.
• 8 whisk a spoonful of the hot milk mixture into the yolks.
• 9 then add a little more, being careful to go slowly so you don't cook the yolks.
• 10 when you have a cup of the cream and yolk mixture successfully added to the hot milk mixture, add this all to the hot milk, whisking constantly --
• 11 continue cooking, covered, about 20 minutes, stirring now and then.
• 12 remove from heat.
• 13 add vanilla.
• 14 pour pudding into cups and serve.
• 15 you can chill these also, if desired.
• 16 [scalding milk can seem intimidating - you can just heat the milk to just boiling and then cheat by adding cornstarch dissolved in cold water to make a runny paste, in small amounts until the milk is thickened to where you would like it to be - depending if you'd like this to be soupy or quite firm as a pudding.
• 17 do not be afraid to experiment.