Creamy Rice with Peaches

Name: Creamy Rice with Peaches
Ingredients: ¼ pint yoghurt (150 ml); 2–3 tablespoons caster sugar – to taste; 4–6 fresh peaches; ¼ pint (double) cream (150 ml); 2½ cups water; 2 oz flaked almonds (50 g); 3 tablespoons soft brown sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla essence; 2 tablespoons honey; juice of 1 lemon; juice of 1 orange; 1 cup pudding rice; grated rind of 1 orange and 1 lemon

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Taste of Dreams

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1976

About

In the peach season, this is a good lunchtime pudding as children and adults will both enjoy it and it will avoid the squabbles over who has a peach or whose peach is the biggest. It is a cold pudding which you can make in advance but with a delicious hot syrup poured over before you serve it.

Ingredients

1 cup pudding rice
2½ cups water
¼ pint

Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Bring the water to the boil. Put the rice in and simmer until just tender, not really soft, still with a slight nutty bite to it. Drain the rice into a large sieve and rinse through with cold water. Cool completely. Whip the cream until fairly stiff. Stir into it the caster sugar, vanilla essence, the grated rind of the orange and lemon (the juice of which you are going to use later in the sauc