Americana Hotel Oranged Rice Puddingcarrie Sheridan Food

AMERICANA HOTEL ORANGED RICE PUDDING/CARRIE SHERIDAN

Steps:

• Scald milk in a bowl sitting over a pot of very hot, not boiling, water.
• Pare the orange like an apple, going round and round so that the peel is in one long spiral.
• Add the orange peel, rice, sugar and salt to the scalded milk.
• Cook, covered, over the hot water OR over a low flame until the rice is tender - usually 20-30 minutes.
• Stir with a wooden spoon occasionally during the first part of the cooking.
• Remove the peel.
• Combine cream and egg yolks well.
• Whisk a spoonful of the hot milk mixture into the yolks.
• Then add a little more, being careful to go slowly so you don't cook the yolks.
• When you have a cup of the cream and yolk mixture successfully added to the hot milk mixture, add this all to the hot milk, whisking constantly --.
• Continue cooking, covered, about 20 minutes, stirring now and then.
• Remove from heat.
• Add vanilla.
• Pour pudding into cups and serve.
• You can chill these also, if desired.
• [scalding milk can seem intimidating - you can just heat the milk to JUST boiling and then cheat by adding cornstarch dissolved in cold water to make a runny paste, in small amounts until the milk is thickened to where you would like it to be - depending if you'd like this to be soupy or quite firm as a pudding.
• do NOT be afraid to experiment.