Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding

Old-Fashioned Rice Pudding

1 cup cooked rice
2 cups milk
2 eggs, separated
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Fruit or raisins, if desired

Add cooked rice to milk, heat to scalding point in top of double boiler. Beat yolks with sugar. Add rice and milk mixture slowly to yolk mixture, beating vigorously. Pour all back into double boiler. Cook until thick. Fold in raisins or chopped fruit, if desired. Place in buttered casserole; cover with meringue. Brown.

Meringue:
Beat egg whites until stiff, slowly adding 4 teaspoons sugar. Beat until meringue stands in stiff peaks.
(02/01/2008)
By dovetears
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