Plain Rice Pudding

Ingredients

• One and a half quarts of milk
• One-half cupful of rice
• Three-fourths of a cupful of sugar
• Dessert spoonful of butter

Directions

1. Wash your rice well.
2. Put as much milk as the dish you wish to bake your pudding in will hold, together with the rice.
3. Allow it to boil.
4. As the milk cooks away, keep adding more until all is used
5. Add sugar and butter
6. Bake until brown.
7. When your pudding is baking and the crust forms, skim it off each time for five or six times before allowing it to finally form and remain.

Source — Cooking in Old Créole Days

Prepared by Brody C. Pinion

Louisiana Anthology

July 15, 2017