This baked rice pudding recipe was given to me by a friend of mine.

Ingredients

• 4 cups milk
• 1/2 cup short (or long) grain rice
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. nutmeg (or cinnamon)
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Directions

In a casserole dish or a large bowl, add rice, salt, nutmeg and sugar to the milk. Preheat oven to 300 degreees. Bake for one hour and then remove and stir in the raisins. Return to oven to bake for two more hours. Alow to cool.

Raisins can be omitted, but mixture still needs to be stirred once after first hour. Cinnamon can replace nutmeg, which produces a tasty sweet scab of a crust on the top of the pudding.

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Here is another rice pudding recipe you may enjoy.

• 4 cups milk
• 1 cup or more of cold cooked rice
• 4 eggs
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 2/3 cup raisins
• 2 tsp. vanilla extract
• nutmeg

Scald the milk in a heavy sauce pan with the rice. Beat eggs slightly in a buttered 1 ½ quart casserole dish. Stir in the sugar and salt. Add the hot milk mixture slowly to the eggs, stirring. Stir in raisins and vanilla and sprinkle with nutmeg. Set in pan of hot water and bake in a slow oven (325 degrees) for 1 ½ to 2 hours or until an inserted knife comes out clean. (Makes 4 to 6 servings).