{the recipe redux} rice pudding
Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 4:22PM Mawmaw Ween passed away 10 years ago day. I've written about her before.... she was my dad's mom. To sum up - she meant the world to me. She inspired my love of food and nutrition. Words can't express how much I miss her.
This is the recipe box we rescued from her home years after her death.
I searched through this whole box to find a dish to ReDux for this month's theme - vintage dishes. I couldn't find a thing.
Oh, I found plenty of recipes crammed into that box (pack rat doesn't do justice to the issues my grandmother had with not being able to let go of ANYTHING. Seriously, she had issues, but I loved her in spite of that.)
But I couldn't bring myself to re-do anything in her recipe box. There were a lot of recipes I recognized - like Chocolate Pound Cake. My mom still talks about how Ween made an amazing Chocolate Pound Cake.
But that's the thing... she was known for some wonderful recipes that I want to live in my memories just as they were.
So instead, I decide to tackle a dish that I remember as one of the last dishes I brought to her house in the years before she died:
I forget which holiday it was... Ironically, I think it probably was Thanksgiving. I remember making rice pudding as a newly married young woman and bringing it to her house for a family get together with my Dad, my grandparents and my Dad's sister + family. We'd never really eaten rice pudding growing up, but I'd found that I really liked it as a young adult. I'm pretty sure, though, the version I made then was not only less than light (I recall the inspiration was from a Southern Living Cookbook I had just worked on) and definitely not quick & easy. I've ReDux'ed this version to not only lighten it, but also adapt it to a simpler stovetop method.
The result? It's just as good as I remember it. The only thing that would make it better would be having her here to enjoy it with this Thanksgiving.
Here's wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and start to a wonderful holiday season!
Stovetop Rice Pudding
Ingredients (3 1/2 cups)
- 3 tablespoons cornstarch
- 2 cups 2% milk, divided
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 3 cups cooked brown rice
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
Combine cornstarch with 1/2 cup milk until dissolved; set aside.
Combine sugar and remaining 1 1/2 cups milk in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Stir in rice, raisins, cinnamon, vanilla and salt; bring just to a boil, reduce heat and simmer 5 minutes. Stir in cornstarch mixture and continue simmering 5 additional minutes or until thickened.
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