Wherever in the world you call home, there was probably some sort of sweet rice pudding on the family table, a bowl that might have begun as nursery food and continued as a favorite sweet throughout childhood. Rice pudding is a little like ice cream without the icy part. Baked rice puddings, with sugar, milk, breadcrumbs, and bone marrow, date to the 17th century, he writes. Use the pasta method for cooking the rice, that is, use much more water than the rice can absorb. Rice pudding is in its own cozy category.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 05, 2021 16:52 UTC