Mad Cook
Master Chef
Do you cook rice pudding in the oven or in a saucepan on the hob?
You don't seem to see baked rice pudding on cooking programmes these days. Even Ina Garten was demo'ing a rice pudding made in a saucepan the other day - sacrilege! You don't get the lovely sweet brown skin on the top that you get when the rice pudding is cooked in the oven all morning with no lid on it. When I was little my Dad and I used to fight over whose turn it was to get the skin.
Incidentally, full cream milk please - or even better, if you can get it, make your rice pudding with Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) cows milk. Luxurious just doesn't begin to describe it especially when it's been in the oven for a long time and has acquired a faintly caramel-ish flavour.
You don't seem to see baked rice pudding on cooking programmes these days. Even Ina Garten was demo'ing a rice pudding made in a saucepan the other day - sacrilege! You don't get the lovely sweet brown skin on the top that you get when the rice pudding is cooked in the oven all morning with no lid on it. When I was little my Dad and I used to fight over whose turn it was to get the skin.
Incidentally, full cream milk please - or even better, if you can get it, make your rice pudding with Channel Islands (Jersey and Guernsey) cows milk. Luxurious just doesn't begin to describe it especially when it's been in the oven for a long time and has acquired a faintly caramel-ish flavour.