Burnt Rice Pudding

Sweet rice puddings are popular desserts, and always served cold. Zerde, a delicately flavoured pudding with currants and pine nuts and coloured with saffron, is served at weddings and circumcision feasts, and keşme bulamaci, a spicy bulgur pudding, is eaten as a snack in eastern and southeastern Anatolia. Sütlaç, the classic rice pudding from the Ottoman Palace kitchens, is often flavoured with rose-water and chilled or, as in this re