Rice Pudding

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

  • About

Starch-based puddings were extremely popular in the early twentieth century. They were staple nursery food, and the majority of children of most classes were raised on a steady diet of cornstarch blancmange, tapioca pudding, baked semolina, arrowroot pudding, and rice pudding. Of all of them, rice pudding has the most heritage, as boiled rice was eaten as a pricy and exotic dish in the medieval period, using rice imported from the Far East and flavored with sugar and spice. There are hundre