to ask do people not make milk puddings anymore?

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I found a recipe I wanted to make Mincemeat and Shortbread squares. One of the ingredients is ground rice. Fine, but I knew I didn't have any so I added it to the shopping list.

DH did the shopping and came back saying he couldn't find it anywhere. Hmm. I went to look for myself. Admittedly it is not something I can remember having bought myself but I know it was a staple my mum always had in the cupboard for baking and making puddings with.

It will be where they keep the semolina I thought. I remembered all those weekday milk puddings my mum made - rice, ground rice, semolina, tapioca, sago. Find the ingredients for those and that is where the ground rice will be I thought.

Except they don't seem to exist anymore. I checked all the supermarkets in town and the wholefood store. No luck. Is this a whole species of pudding people just don't do anymore? Anyone know where I could get ground rice?

If you are still there and are at all interested I substituted ground almonds on the basis that:
a. It has "ground" in the name
b. I think my mum used ground rice sometimes as an economical substitute for ground almonds in recipes like maids of honour so maybe it will work out ok in reverse.

My mum used to make ground rice as distinct from rice pudding, it's not just yours!

can someone please tell me how long to cook rice pudding in the slow cooker for?

Pudding rice would be in the flour isle

You'd think so wouldn't you?

We hunted all over Tesco for pudding rice at the weekend and that was our starting point. Then we looked in the rice aisle.

It turned out to be where tinned rice pudding is.

Made a mighty fine rice pub, with gold top milk. Very unhealthy, but delicious.

Semolina - wheat
Tapioca - cassava - "frogspawn" - the big blobby one
Sago - extracted from the spongy centre, or pith, of various tropical palm stems (thank you, Wikipedia) - the smaller blobby one
Blancmange - lets not even go there

All of the above were served (not all at once) at my junior school. I hated them all.

The only true milk pudding is rice pudding (All hail the mighty rice pudding)

Next time, before you give up and go to the next supermarket ASK!
In my experience they are very helpful and will find anything

se,olina is very trndy at the moment, put it on roast potatoes, pizza, all sorts apparently!

I ADORE semolina, tapioca and blancmange!

Oh I want rice pudding with jam now. Don't like any of the other mushy milk puddings though. Including blancmange.

I love ground rice and you can get it in Asda - I think next to the other "puddingy" things rather than next to the other kinds of rice.

"Blancmange - lets not even go there"

Blancmange is just milk, sugar, cornflour and flavouring, so not necessarily horrible, surely.

I love soggy semolina with a blob of jam. These puddings were once regarded as very healthy and suitable for children whereas now we think they are too sugary and maybe too many carbs. So I think that's why they have become less popular.

My children went through a month long phase of eating, and begging for tapioca puddings, several time a week. ... Started after buying bubble teas in the mall. Past that now☺️

I grate nutmeg over my rice pudding. Mmm!

I had home made rice pudding at the weekend and have a big bag of tabioca in the cupboard, you can buy it in Asian shops

I want some semolina now. Love it. It's the only milky thing where even the skin is nice.

And I'm going to buy some Rachel's rice pudding tomorrow which is also lush.

Corner shops near me do it. And Tescos. And the wholefood shop. Worth trying Trscos again?

When I was making puddings for my now adult children, their favourite was milk jelly. Dead easy to make. Dissolve a jelly in about 1/4 of the usual amount of water and when it has cooled but not set , stir in milk up to about 1 pint/500 ml . Set overnight in the fridge. Don’t add the cold milk to a hot jelly liquid though as it will curdle.

My resistant eater wouldn’t have it though, despite the fact that on his short (10) list of foods were milk and jelly sweets.
I hated milk puddings as a child and still can’t eat them. I was never allowed trifle as I wouldn’t eat the custard in the middle. I was so pleased when we got a fridge in the late 60’s and could have ice cream for pudding!

Although this thread would suggest the opposite, everyone has had a milky pudding in the last 48 hours I'd guess that daily deliveries of milk meant there was often a glut and rice pudding etc. was a good way of using milk up.

Came home from work today and DP had made fish fingers sandwiches and home made rice pudding for dinner. Wonderful

Trailed, absolutely right. Rather than keep putting out notes for the milkman changing the delivery, we used up the extra milk in various ways. Pancakes were always in great demand by mine.

Tesco are weird for things like this. The massive one near me doesn't sell poppy seeds for example.

I'm sure I've seen it in morrisons.

I love milk puddings, especially semolina. When I was little my mum used to buy a product called "creamola" (would have been early eighties) which was a ground rice pudding that you made up with milk. It was delicious. It's no longer made but I found a recipe online to recreate it with ground rice and custard powder.
I buy my ground rice from the world foods aisle, you can get a big bag much cheaper than the whitworths box.

Ooh I remember all of those lovely puddings OP, just like my granny used to make. With a big dollop of homemade jam on top. I hope they haven’t died out.

What's bubble tea? Sounds horrific. Jux, I have a recipe for potato pudding somewhere.

@allegretto I was just going to ask if anyone remembered macaroni pudding. Only edible part of 1970s school dinners, as we called them then! Still make it occasionally.

I used to make rice pudding in the slow cooker when I lived in the US, I used Aborio rice or short grain rice, both worked. I used to find Ground rice in the health food store there.
I love old fashioned milk puddings. The only ones I don't like are Tapioca and sago.