My Mum's Rice Pudding Brulee

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/4 lb pudding rice
• 1 pint milk
• 2 -3 drops vanilla extract
• 1 ounce butter
• 4 ounces caster sugar
• 2 egg yolks
• additional caster sugar, for topping

Recipe

• 1 put rice in small pan and cover with boiling water and cook for 4 minutes.
• 2 drain and rinse under the hot tap.
• 3 put milk in pan with the vanilla and bring to the boil.
• 4 put rice and milk into a covered casserole dish and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes.
• 5 cream butter and sugar until smooth and creamy, add egg yolks and beat.
• 6 take rice out of oven, and turn oven down a fraction.
• 7 add egg mix mixture to the rice and beat together with a fork.
• 8 butter a souffle dish, pour in rice mixture and set in a pan of hot water in the oven and cook for a further 40 minutes.
• 9 remove and cool.
• 10 when quite cold, cover top generously with caster sugar and put under a very hot grill until sugar turns golden brown.
• 11 chill and serve with thin cream.