Apropos of nothing but inspired by an argument betweixt my wife and I in the car at the weekend.
Skin on rice pudding. Is it the best part or the worst?
Can’t remember that last time I had it, much less any strong feelings either way. Not through any dislike of it, just haven’t had any.
Was eaten straight from the tin and that was 34 years ago...haven't eaten it since or plan to ever again!
Mmmmm. 👍
Urgh. Roughly 50% of people on here I have irreconcilable differences with.
The last dozen times I've eaten it were cold, from a tin, on exercise.
So that's over 3 decades ago.
The skin is by far the best bit, especially with nutmeg.
Sorry, but that stuff in a tin is not rice pudding. It's sick but with the carrot chunks removed.
Best. Scraping out the dish is a treat.
Looks like nearly 60% of us would fight to the death for it! In this house it's all mine. Herself thinks it is the work of the devil along with custard skin.
I'm wholly with Mr Sandwich up there - rice pudding and custard skins are superb, and all mine.
The skin is the only nice bit. I dislike rice pudding so much that I'd rather have tapioca.
The last time I had rice pudding was at my grandmother's, when I was about 8 years old. It was always served with a dollop of strawberry jam. Was forced to eat it, no matter what I thought about it.
That was over 50 years ago and I still get PTSD responses just thinking about it. The devil's own jizzum with a few more lumps!
The in-laws committed a hate crime on my first visit. Custard skin from pre-made custard was thrown away 😱 😱 😱
Came very close to riding the bike back home from Ulster to East Anglia!
I bet they don’t eat the crackling off the pork either
I like Ambrosia tinned rice pudding. My other half sometimes makes rice pudding but it's either too runny or too claggy. Don't mind the skin.
Also it's best when cold and you can cut it with a knife
Best bit, it's up there with the skin on a Clootie dumpling and the soggy layer of pastry on a steak pie.
depends, can be slimy, and no one wants that. burnt so that it's firm, that's OK
depends, can be slimy, and no one wants that. burnt so that it's firm, that's OK
I'll concede on this distinction. Slimy skin on rice pudding (or custard) is vile.
Forum falling to bits. Loads of "feedback" on the New Website thread. Poll about rice pudding. Priorities...
Best bit. Ditto custard. Also the lovely crusty crispy bit of your lasagna you have to chip out. Always the best bits.
Oh Yes! My Nan used to make an amazing rice pudding & the skin was definitely the best bit, although the whole thing was very enjoyable.
Not had home-made rice pudding for a very long time. Might have to make some with my daughter this weekend.....👍
Thanks Mark for the inspiration!
Not had rice pudding for a minute, but rice pudding skin can stay. Mind you, I regard life as being too short to peel potatoes for any dish so I'm probably already considered a wrongun.
Just don't care though.
This is clearly another attempt at some underhand tactics by Mark - he will cross reference our responses against our quoted FTPs on the training thread, and based on our ability to pull the skin off a rice pudding [or not], will sell our details to some dodgy coaching outfit
My family are all wrong ‘uns. They all like mashed potato and rice pudding - both of which I detest. Although as the cook of the house I have to make.
The best thing about rice pudding is that completely unlike bread and butter pudding - is that I am never tempted to taste as I am making…
What a disgusting thread you can estimate the average age of the demographic from the responses.
Forum falling to bits. Loads of "feedback" on the New Website thread. Poll about rice pudding. Priorities...
a) multi tasking is a thing
b) a bit of fun never hurts
c) most of the posters on this thread are paying members so presumably feel rice pudding is a bigger issue than the forum performance we ger
Also the lovely crusty crispy bit of your lasagna you have to chip out
Obviously the loss of my father in law was sad, but I am now the chief lasagne dish cleaner of the family, so there's that.
Ugh. Goes to the hens, along with rhubarb and gooseberries.
I regard life as being too short to peel potatoes for any dish
But. But. How do you avoid your potato ricer clogging when making mash?
Forum falling to bits. Loads of "feedback" on the New Website thread. Poll about rice pudding. Priorities...
I’ll put you down as a ‘whatever’, then?
But. But. How do you avoid your potato ricer clogging when making mash?
Oh it's all skin-on crushed potatoes these days, none of your Michelin starred 5 times through a sieve puree.
I regard life as being too short to peel potatoes for any dish
But. But. How do you avoid your potato ricer clogging when making mash?
Definitely too short for a namby pamby ricer.
I like my mashed potato rugged, dangerous and outdoorsy so use a....masher thing.
Creamy smooth mash reminds me of school, particularly when it's been served with an ice cream scoop. 🤮
Creamy smooth mash reminds me of school, particularly when it's been served with an ice cream scoop.
Tell me you didn't attend state school without telling me . . .
Us oiks had lumps in our school dinner mash, sometimes it was even warm when it left the scoop!
It was a state school alright, but i remember it as smooth, beige and insipid and de-scooped onto your plate without ceremony.
It was a state school alright, but i remember it as smooth, beige and insipid and de-scooped onto your plate without ceremony.
Sounds very much like my state school
Rice pudding is bogging, The last time I had/refused to eat my rice pudding was probably at primary school in the early 80’s and I remember getting the strap across my knuckles for refusing to eat it…horrible stuff.
I think at our school, they mashed them as creamy smooth as possible, then added half cooked lumps of potato in after.
I remember going round to Darren Millers house for tea, largely drawn by his "I shot JR" t shirt, and his mam asked if we wanted pudding, rice pudding, I was delighted as MY mam's was nearly as legendary as her beef stew and dumplings.....and then she proceeded to spoon it into the bowls from the tin at the table.
Savages. Never went again.
Rice pudding is pretty disgusting, especially with raisins or sultana in it (rice and ratshit pretty much sums it up). The skin is utterly vile.
Proper baked rice pudding done properly is incredible stuff.
Cakey yet gooey, zingy from the lemons, just fantastic.
The runny stuff gives me horrifying flashbacks to school dinners.
I'm wondering how some of these ricepuddingphobes feel about risotto. Or rice.
I'm wondering how some of these ricepuddingphobes feel about risotto. Or rice.
Wonder no longer… Love basmati long grain rice! Love risotto. Love Thai or Vietnamese sticky rice. Savoury rice excellent. Sweet rice - no thanks.
I'm wondering how some of these ricepuddingphobes feel about risotto. Or rice.
Ok, if you're hungry and there isn't anything with bacon available:
Heaven:
Avoid this at all costs, multiple people die from this every year:
Had homemade special fried rice for lunch.
Taste of home.
Avoid this at all costs, multiple people die from this every year:
Well I suppose 2 is multiple. What else do people choke on?