Old time rice pudding

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 larges Eggs; OR 4 yolks
⅓ cup Sugar
½ teaspoon Salt
1 quart Milk; scalded
Vanilla extract; optional
Lemon rind; grated, optional
⅓ cup Rice; uncooked
½ cup Seedless raisins
Nutmeg; to taste

Directions

Beat eggs, sugar and salt slightly. Add milk, vanilla (if desired), rice, raisins and grated lemon rind (if desired). Pour into 1-quart casserole (6½") and set in pan of water (1" deep). Sprinkle with nutmeg. Bake 3 hours in a slow oven (oven temp is not give, but the cookbook defines a "slow oven at 250-300 degrees F), stirring three times in the first hour. Bake until a silver knife thrust into custard comes out clean. Immediately remove from heat. Serves 6 Me ke aloha, Mary Recipe by: Betty Crocker (1950) Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by MarySpero@... (MS MARY E SPERO) on Aug 15, 1997

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