Made it in a kettle and they couldn't get it out

[venta]

Just because I'm curious:

[Poll #1545633]

This was brought to you following a promotional visit from some Mueller people to our office, dishing out free raspberry Mueller rice, and the discovery that a colleague of mine has never eaten rice pud and had no idea what it was like.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Proper rice pudding, the sort you bake in the bottom of the oven while you're doing the Sunday roast, is the best thing ever! With nutmeg and cinnamon in, and raspberry jam on the side. Or make it with bits of dark chocolate melted in.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I also really liked semolina. Haven't had it since I was about 5.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Nom. And tapioca. Never quite got why no one else at school liked these milky puddings. Rice pudding made with flaked rice, too - much nearer semolina in texture.

Damn, no milk in the house.

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

Anyone here remember sago, the fourth member of the triumvirate of milk puddings?

Usually known at school as 'frogspawn', for reasons that will be instantly apparently should you ever see some.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes, although it's almost identical to tapioca. Tapioca was our frogspawn, at school.

I encouraged this name, as it meant there was more for me when no one else wanted seconds. :)

[shui-long.livejournal.com]

I definitely remember frogspawn at school dinners - I thought it was tapioca, though.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I like semolina too. My mum makes it, but I never have. I should.

Incidentally, in answer to your cooking advice: which bit of "put milk, sugar and rice in bowl, put in oven" is too much effort ? Not intended to be a facetious question, I do want to know. I like cooking, so am prepared to make effort, but even to someone who doesn't I'd have thought rice pud was at the very low end of the scale of effortfulness.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

I was sometimes given it as a child at home as well as school, but never really liked it in either context. I don't think the school version helped, but I also don't think I would like it very much anyway.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I'm boggling at the thought of someone having never had rice pudding. Of course, I'm not sure that the Mueller rice is the way to start cos it should be Proper Baked rice pud with a skin on top, but it's pretty nice stuff.

For some reason which I'm not going to state on an unlocked post because it is very strange, I think it is odd to make rice pudding with rice milk. But it tastes fine, so that's the important thing.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes, I was really confused by the idea someone had never had it. Been put off at an early age and never had it since, fine - but never?

Rice pudding with rice milk seems reasonable if you don't do dairy stuff. I've been recommended making it with coconut milk, too - which sounds yummy if not cooking for people with coconut issues :)

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Do people have coconut issues? I've never heard of anyone being allergic to coconut.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

Do people have coconut issues? I've never heard of anyone being allergic to coconut.

AIUIBIANAD it's not a very common allergen (also not a nut from that POV), but some people can't readily digest it. Don't know the mechanism - too rich, perhaps?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I have at least one person on my flist who is. I was surprised when I found out - hence remembering it - because she thinks it goes hand in hand with being allergic to pineapple; I am also allergic to pineapple but absolutely fine with coconut, and I cannot think of anything they have in common (apart from a pina colada). Pineapple and kiwi as an allergic pairing makes sense, as they both have actinidain (as does mango, which I am also allergic to, and papaya, which I have never tried and never will!).

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I've heard similar as well, though not tried it myself :-). Remind me, is the milk the high fat part? Might make good ice cream if so.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Coconut milk is so high fat that even the half-fat version you can buy is way over the acceptable level for someone on a low-cholesterol diet.

Probably why it's yummy :)

[lnr]

I think I've got a can in the cupboard, that I can't eat due to dieting :) I should see if anyone else wants it. Probably not worth trying to post halfway across the country though.

[keris.livejournal.com]

I've never tried it - it looks icky! :)

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of rice pudding until I came to the UK, and I've since had it forced on my once. Never again.

[qatsi.livejournal.com]

I've mostly avoided it since school, but having tried making it from scratch a couple of times I rather like it. I think they must have omitted sugar altogether.

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

I don't like "proper" rice pudding, because I don't usually like things foods with skin on them. (It's a texture thing.)

I do rather like the tinned stuff, though ...

[ar-gemlad.livejournal.com]

You've saved me from writing my own comment.

Ditto!

[hjalfi.livejournal.com]

My uncle apparently always referred to the skin on food --- custard, rice putting, hot chocolate, etc --- as 'the scab'.

This seems to have been a cunning ploy to ensure that after asking 'Can I have the scab, please?' in public, nobody else would want it.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Clarification to "meh" vote above: I actually quite like the stuff, but other puddings are both nicer and easier, so I don't see the point.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I like both homemade rice pudding (though I remove the skin) and the tinned kind - special in their different ways. Hate tapioca and semolina, though. I'm just fussy about my grains; I also love rice but hate couscous.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yes. Like proper coffee and instant coffee, I like both homemade and tinned rice pud, but consider them to be quite different things :)

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Also homemade and tinned macaroni cheese - both bigtime comfort foods for me.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Nope, lost me there. I absolutely loathe tinned macaroni cheese, which always appears to be made entirely out of sticks, socks and vomit.

Homemade kind is great, though.

Don't be fooled by Waitrose "low fat" macaroni cheese ready meals, though. They made it low fat by (as far as I can tell) not putting any cheese in it. On the plus side, when I complained they sent me some Waitrose vouchers.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd much rather have tinned than readymeal. Not as good as homemade, not as evil as tinned, give me a lasagne any day chiz.

[lnr]

You're me, you are. Well, in this respect.

[uitlander]

I should explain the love/hate answer. We had two varieties of rice pudding at school. One emerged as an icky shade of pink and was absolutely disgusting. The other was white, had a lovely brown crusty skin and was adorable. The pink one is believed to come out of a can labeled 'Ambrosia'

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

We used to have it at school with rosehip syrup. (Does that still exist?) Which, if you mixed it in, made it look like one of the more exciting kinds of sick. Not that that put me off in any way.

I like the suggestions of cardamom above, I'll have to give that a go. It's commonly used in Indian milky puds, so I should have thought of it myself really.

[venta.livejournal.com]

We used to have it at school with red syrup. I don't think it involved fruit, I think it was just made of red.

We did used to drink (diluted) rosehip syrup at home, though. Where, because it was sold as suitable for small persons, it was always known as "baby juice".

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Yes. I have half a plan to make chai masala rice pudding, as they're basically the same thing but one substitutes rice for tea.

Actually, now I come to think of it, you could probably do a great shrikhand/amrakhand style rice pudding, too...

[lnr]

I presume you mean substituting milk for tea, and keeping the rice?

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

No, and yes. What I mean is that both masala chai and rice pudding are based around milk, sugar, and spices. So I'd just add tea to rice pudding.

[lnr]

Now I'm reminded of my grandma's yorkshire puddings cooked with raisins in for afters, served with raspberry vinegar.

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

You can certainly get Rosehip in the Netherlands. Lisa loves it.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

UGH UGH UGH, combines all my least favorite things into one sloppy vile package, starch, sugar and milk. Utterly revolting.

Rice should be savoury, like meat, and preferably served savory with meat!

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I liked rice pudding, but liked some of the other things my primary school cooked better. I liked most school dinners, though; partly 'cos I eat most stuff.

[mrlloyd.livejournal.com]

Who are these rice pudding loving freaks? Frogspawn with monkey blood, that's what we called our rice pudding with jam...