Recipe/RicePudding

There are as many ways to make rice pudding as there are people, I suspect. This is the one that Emperor is fond of...
Serves 4 hungry people who don't mind the odd calorie :)

1 1/2 pint full-fat milk
1 pint single cream
4oz sugar
grated zest of 1/2 orange
1 cardamom pod, slightly bashed
150g pudding rice

Put milk, cream, sugar, orange zest, and cardamom in a pan. Stir over a low heat until sugar is dissolved, and milk has come to the boil

Put pudding rice in a shallowish ovenproof dish. Sieve/strain the milk mixture over the rice, and stir to mix

Cook at gas mark 3 (170C I think) for 1 3/4 hour until rice cooked and most of liquid gone; stir halfway, and don't worry if it forms a skin

Serve with fruit/jam if you wish, but I find it's fine without