"songbird" > wrote in message
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> making an old fashioned rice pudding
> (with raisins, eggs, sugar, milk, etc.) ?
>
> i don't want instant rice, but some other
> type, preferably not terribly expensive. i
> have access to a number of places that sell
> various rices so a list of preferences is
> fine too.
>
> as a kid Mom made some rice pudding and i've
> not been eating much rice the past several
> years but once in a while i have a fond
> memory of this dish so i was saying to Mom that
> the next time she feels like making something
> we could try this. it was either this or
> cream puffs (or perhaps both)...
>
> personally, i think i just really like nutmeg
> and this was the dish that made me really like
> it the most. otherwise i've always been a fan
> of sweets, custards and such.
>
> thanks!

Mom mom always bought Uncle Ben's. That's what my dad used to make rice
pudding. I don't like rice pudding but if I were to make it, I'd buy a cheap
bag of whatever I could find, as rice is slim pickin's here now. I never use
instant rice.