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Baked Rice
Mrs. L. Disney. 3 C milk 1/2 Crice ½ t salt 1/2 C seeded raisins 1/4 C sugar Grated rind ½ orange Wash rice well, put in pudding dish, add milk, salt, sugar and orange rind and bake in a slow oven about one hour, or until thick, stirring several times during the baking. Add raisins about ½ hour before done. Serve with top milk or cream. 2 C stale bread crumbs 4 apples sliced 3/4 C brown sugar
A plain baked rice pudding, typed up with the fraction bars lost in transcription. The last three lines belong to a different recipe entirely and should be ignored.
- The ingredient listThe printed page was checked and the fractions are as our text now gives them. "1/2 Crice" is 1/2 cup rice, run together in the setting. The working list is 3 cups milk, 1/2 cup rice, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 cup sugar, grated rind of half an orange, and 1/2 cup seeded raisins.
- The stray ingredients"2 C stale bread crumbs, 4 apples sliced, 3/4 C brown sugar" is the opening of a separate recipe that has run on in transcription; it looks like the start of an apple and crumb pudding of some kind. None of it goes in the rice.
- Slow ovenRoughly 250-325F; 300F is a reasonable middle. The recipe says about an hour, or until thick, but a deeper dish may want longer; judge by the rice rather than the clock.
- Rice to useShort or medium grain white rice gives the creamy result intended. Long grain stays separate and parboiled rice will not release enough starch to thicken the milk. Do not use instant.
- The stirringThis is the hinge. Stir three or four times in the first hour to keep the grains suspended and to break the skin back into the pudding; without it the rice settles into a solid layer under thin milk. Stop stirring in the last half hour if you want a browned top.
- Seeded raisinsMeans raisins with the seeds removed, not seeds added. Any modern seedless raisin is what she wanted. Adding them late, as directed, keeps them plump rather than dissolved.
- Top milkThe cream that rose in a bottle of unhomogenised milk. Pouring cream or half-and-half is the equivalent.
- YieldFour to six modest servings from a 1 1/2 quart dish. Good warm, and it will thicken further as it cools.
Baked rice pudding of this type is milk, rice, sugar and long slow heat, a dish long established in English kitchens before this book was compiled. The orange rind is the small extravagance here: citrus peel was one of the common ways to flavour a milk pudding in the era before bottled vanilla was a pantry staple. Mrs. Disney's instruction to serve it with top milk points to unhomogenised milk, where the cream stood at the neck of the bottle and could be skimmed for exactly this purpose.