Chocolate Milk Creamy Rice Pudding Made The Old Fashioned Way

Total Time: 4 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup medium grain rice
• 1/2 cup arborio rice
• 1/2 cup raw sugar (or granulated or light brown)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
• 1 half gallon cold whole chocolate milk (i look for whole milk for this as the original recipe i started with said skim doesn't work but 2% w)

Recipe

• 1 either cut the recipe in half or find a baking dish that holds at least 10 cups ungreased; cooking uncovered is essential.
• 2 set oven temperature to 275 degrees f.
• 3 move shelf to low center and keep dish near the front so you can just reach in and stir.
• 4 stir all the raw ingredients together; the milk will be cold and take awhile to start cooking.
• 5 cook for 40 minutes, reach in with fork and stir.
• 6 cook for another 40 minutes, reach in and stir.
• 7 by this time the rice might have started swelling.
• 8 cook another 35 minutes and stir, the rice should be swollen, sticking together in clumps so stir a lot, mash down with fork, get in bottom edges of baking dish, try to get as many grains separated as you can.
• 9 cook for another 30 minutes and stir, most of the rice will not have clumped again.
• 10 fairly early on a skin will form on top, just stir it all back in each time until the last.
• 11 after another 30 minutes, it should be about done so stir once more.
• 12 some of the rice should be floating near the top and it will look runny.
• 13 bake another 20 to 30 minutes; i let skin form on the final cooking.
• 14 remove from oven and set on trivet to cool.
• 15 it's best to wait until it's entirely cooled to room temperature or just slightly warm before digging into it with a spoon; this takes patience.
• 16 if you do it while it's hot, it's very runny and you will get too much creamy and what remains won't be as nice.
• 17 it thickens as it cools.
• 18 store covered in refrigerator; it will thicken more yet, get sticky, chewy and creamy in spots.
• 19 if it works for you, you can add cinnamon, raisins, or try other ideas.
• 20 i don't know what would happen if you warmed the milk first but i think it wouldn't be the same.
• 21 the cooking time may be up to 1/2 hour more than stated.