It's a snow day here. I've got a whole day to goof around and a strong urge to make rice pudding. There is no such thing as a bad rice pudding recipe but I always go back to my favorite one.
As background pictures for the recipe, I have a few of my favorite vintage recipe pamphlets. The one above is my newest and cutest; Pillsbury's 11th Grand National Bake-Off Cookbook.
Eagle Brand...one of the best baking ingredients ever (it is magic!).
This Brer Rabbit one is really old. Check out the gingerbread men...nightmare inducing.
So, here's the recipe for cinnamon rice pudding. I'll be making it after I finish that painting project I started.
Cinnamon Rice Pudding
3 1/2 Cups milk; divided
1/2 Cup short-grain rice
1/3 Cup sugar
1 Tbsp butter
1 stick cinnamon
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 Cup (or more) raisins
Combine 3 Cups milk, rice, sugar, butter, and cinnamon stick in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for 10 minutes. Combine remaining 1/2 Cup milk with the egg, stir, and add to the pudding mixture. Simmer 40 minutes. Discard cinnamon stick and stir in vanilla and raisins
Hi Julie:
Your recipe is so similar to the one I have used for over twenty years but mine calls for double cream. I have wondered lately if it would work with whole grain rice? I tried many before this recipe that were baked and they always came out too dry.
Lisa xo
Posted by: Lisa | January 20, 2011 at 08:50 AM
I love rice pudding. Love it. But I have yet to enjoy any recipe as amazing as the first rice pudding I ever had... it was at a hippy-palooza potluck in my hippy-dippy grade school. I think the bowl of rice pudding I ate there was definitely one of the better things to come of that chapter!
Your recipe sounds promising.
And, those gingerbread *men* look like gingerbread goons, or zombies... hilariously wrong! If you think of it... re-post for Halloween!
Posted by: Natalie VV | January 20, 2011 at 09:20 AM
I agree with you - there is no bad recipe for rice pudding, and this one sounds great. (Plus it appears to come in that convenient single-serving size! I'm really the only person in the house who likes it, hooray!)
Posted by: barbara | January 20, 2011 at 10:14 AM
ooh, i love those little recipe pamphlets. i just got one for 7-up and now i want to make 7-up ham :) but first, rice pudding ;)
Posted by: kimberly | January 20, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Those gingerbread men look like baked good zombies! My mother made rice pudding when I was a child and somehow I never learned to love it but maybe it's time to give it another try.
Or maybe I'll bake brownies while I give some more thought to the rice pudding... :-)
Posted by: Into Vintage | January 20, 2011 at 11:04 AM
Yum! Rice pudding. Why do I remember this (or not). . . isn't that the name of a paint you chose for you home? :)
These photos make me want to run my favorite thrift store that is sure to carry something this great!
Posted by: claudia | January 20, 2011 at 05:55 PM
This sounds delicious. I was just thinking that I needed a little snack. I wish I had some of this!
Posted by: Amy | January 20, 2011 at 07:19 PM
I will be trying this for sure! I am still on the search for "the one." The perfect rice pudding recipe, that is.
Posted by: Jessica at Kids Napping? I'm Scrapping! | January 21, 2011 at 12:09 AM
Here is the deal. I love to paint,and will paint for you,if you make me so rice pudding1
Posted by: Miss Beets | January 21, 2011 at 06:57 AM
I too love vintage recipe pamphlets! The Eagle Brand one must have some *wonderful* recipes. I don't love rice pudding myself but once I was in NYC and came across this place that looked like an ice cream store but each well was filled with different flavors of rice pudding instead of ice cream! Kelly
Posted by: Kelly | January 22, 2011 at 09:07 PM