Rice for puddings

FrugalHedonist

i've used 'risotto' rice and that worked just as well - in the past I have got it from the larger T3sco's. C0-0p may also stock it 

London_1

Thank you all for your help I went to a little local post/office/ grocery shop about 15 minutes ago as I know they some time do have odd bits and pieces in store, and sucess I got 500gms for £1.00 so I'm really pleased and the little shop has had another customer  I will note that you can use other sorts ,but I wanted to try and get my old fashioned stuff  

The big Tesco hadn't got any in when I was in last weekend, and said they wern't sure when it would be in .
The nearest Sainsburys to me is down at Hempstead Valley and being mindful of fuel costs its about 6 mile round trip ) I wanted to try and source it locally if I could. But Rice pud will be back on the menu sometimes its handy to have just a soup and pudding in the evening instead of cooking much. 
But thank you all for your help 

JackieO xx

maisie_cat

I rarely make rice pudding but I've always used arborio as pudding rice

Spendless

Glad you found some. I've always found it named 'pudding rice' and down the baking aisle.

https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254877391

annieb64

It is confusing when they put pudding rice with desserts . Our local Tesco would sometimes put risotto rice with the pasta.

Grabs39

JIL said:

Any rice will work, I think the short grain has more starch to make the pudding a bit thicker but long grain and basmati work as well. I'm sure at school many moons ago we did a lesson on rice and used different sorts as an experiment. 

If we get given any extra milk by the food waste shop then I make a rice pudding with it using our usual Aldi value rice.  It works, but as you say doesn’t thicken quite as well as pudding or paella rice, so using a little less milk helps.

bouicca21

I’ve often used basmati, but following from other suggestions will try it with arborio next time!

YorksLass

I got my last lot from Sainsburys (£1 for 500g) in the baking/desserts aisle but see you managed to get some locally at the same price.  I too prefer short grain (aka pudding rice) but have used arborio on the odd occasion.  Next time I'll be trying your SC recipe with evaporated milk that sounds especially nice.  

Vegastare

I got mine in Sainsbury too, just going to see how much is left - my Nan always used small can evaporated milk and rest milk.

London_1

I make a large pudding in my slow cooker I use a large tin of evaporated milk to which I add a can and a half of water and top up to two pints with ordinary milk, 4 ozs pudding rice, and 4 ozs or caster sugar.All put into a buttered slow cooker sprinkle some nutmeg on the top ,switch it on around either 8.00 a.m. in the morning and leave on all day until cooked, or last thing at night and leave on overnight in the winter in my kitchen, and my kitchen smells delicious in the morning, and it makes it a wee bit warmer in the morning.
Decant to a large pyrex bowl and its good to go One of my favourite desserts, and definitely comfort food . Great if your not feeling well or have a sore throat as its easy to eat, and if you  just need a bit of cossetting

My late Mum would always cook this like this ,although she would use the gas oven on a low light to do it with (not many slow
 cookers around in the 1940s/50s But if she was making it during the day, she would also have a few jacket potatoes cooking on low in the oven at the same time The oven was always used to its full advantage even backthen so coming in cold and usually hungry after school you could smell the pudding and knew a jacket spud and rice pud was on the menu that night for tea  

JackieO xx