Rice Pudding

I only know some of those words!

1. What is "pudding rice"? We have "short-grain," "long-grain," and "medium-grain" here, plus specialty ethnic types.

2. What temperature (in C and F, preferably) are "gas mark 1" and "gas mark 2"? Even our gas ovens here are marked only in degrees fahrenheit.

3. I do know that a British pint of liquid is 20 oz., not 16, so "1 1/2 pints" is 3 3/4 cups, not 3 cups. And "double cream" means "heavy cream." I'll have to do some more math to figure out what the volume measure of 2 1/2 oz. of rice is, though.

Sorry, was only thinking of Kerri whilst I wrote this!

pudding rice is short grain rice.

Gas Mark 1 is 140C or 275F and Gas Mark 2 is 150C and 300F.

Yes, a British pint is 20 fl.oz., as to how that translates to cups, I don't know. I used to have a nice table that translated, but I don't know where it's got to.

Zillah

is 2 1/2 cups American
(1 cup = 8 fl. oz.)

thanks Zillah... I'd bought Jersey milk specially for this pudding, then stupidly followed the recipe on the pack of rice with a few personal innovations. Plus I don't think it was anywhere near gentle enough in the oven, particularly since mine seems to be hotter than the fires of hell!

I've heard a lot recently about people using risotto rices for rice pudding as well, but I was using ordinary short grain 'pudding rice'.

this all started with DD. She came back from the week on a farm, and a questionnaire soon followed, incuding questions about what 'new' foods the kids had tried. Considering that most of what I'd heard about was roast pork, sausages and sweet and sour pork (not very culturally sensitive that week!) I asked and was told she'd tried rice pudding... and eaten two bowls. Considering that DD is known in our house as the carb queen and has happily eaten any kind of plain carb since she was a baby this just had me in stitches, particularly with the rice connection and the fact that this very ordinary food seemed exciting and exotic to her.

I shall have another go Zillah, with your recipe on hand - I hadn't found a really nice-sounding one anywhere, hence the one on the packet being used. I'll let you know how it goes when I get round to it. I'd had the rice for nearly a year I think before trying it the first time! And Mum bought me a can, so I can give her that in the meantime.

Kerri.

I totally forgot to add sugar until I tasted it just before serving! How dopey is that!?!

Kerri.