To think no one seems to know what ground rice is?!!!!

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So I LOVE a ground rice pudding, ground rice biscuits etc but whenever I mention this or someone sees me eating eat they literally have never heard of it! I'm from N Yorkshire, it is a regional thing?!!! I just thought it was a 'thing', seems not!!!

My DM made rice pudding in the slow cooker. Can't remember how long it took but overnight rice pudding may be a breakfast possibility?

(Can't comment on the quality of slow cooker rice pudding as I'm not keen on any version)

Ooh interesting... to add another perspective, I was born in Essex, have never heard of it or of anyone else I know using it. I do the weekly shop and have never seen ground rice for sale anywhere I can think of. If it's an alternative to rice pudding, I'll need to start looking though...

I reckon if you had a decent blender, you could give it a go.

I have a Bamix and it's indestructible.

But I've learned so much from this thread. As an older person in West Yorkshire, ground rice and ground rice pudding used to be a staple, as was using a bit in shortbread, maybe substitute about a quarter of the flour?

I did not know that it wasn't a wider 'thing'.

I also did not know that Whitworth's ground rice had been discontinued. I've got an old packet in the cupboard and I've just been and looked and the BBE date is 2012

So clearly it isn't a staple in this house. I can't remember why I bought it, probably for shortbread.

I've often wondered if ground rice and rice flour is the same, but Google tells me that ground rice is a coarse version of rice flour, which makes sense. I might try and grind some of my old ground rice into rice flour as an experiment - I've made my own caster or icing sugar from granulated sugar before to avoid having 3 different types of sugar in the house and granulated is much cheaper.

It's literally ground rice. Rice ground up.

When I went to DH's home country for the first time I was encouraged to try their version of semolina pudding. I was put off by my school dinner experience, but have made it ever since. Here's a version if anyone is interested: https://sandhyahariharan.co.uk/irmik-helvasi/

I use it in shortbread.

I had it as a pudding as a child in the 70s, burning don't really like milk puddings.

And would you not crack your teeth on rice in shortbread? No, as ground rice is very finely ground - think a little larger than ground almond size. A little added to the mix really does make lovely crisp shortbread.

So ground rice is the same thing as rice flour, or no? Not. Rice flours - there are several types, often used in gluten free flour blends - are finely ground floury products, but ground rice is very slightly gritty.

Creamy rice pudding with no sultanas...delicious.

West Yorkshire born here. I remember my mum making ground rice tart which was sort of like a Bakewell tart with jam on the bottom. I wouldn't have a clue how to make it though

Pawa rice flakes make a milk pudding in the same time as it would take to make porridge. My autistic DS loves it so I usually have some in.

Never heard of it! What type of rice is it?

My mum used to make this for us in the 80s (we were in the Midlands, but she grew up in the south of England). We had it with golden syrup - if you were lucky you were the last person to use the golden syrup spoon, and then you got to lick it.

I have tried making it myself but it reminds me too much of wallpaper paste in consistency. Ground rice in shortbread is good though!

I had it at a vegan restaurant with saffron, sultanas and honey.

Honey's not vegan...

https://en.christinesrecipes.com/2009/01/chinese-new-year-coconut-pudding.html?m=1

If you have the gelatinous rice flour, baked niangao is amazing. It's the easiest thing to make. I make it each new year for my husband's family, although I reduce the sugar.

56 and never heard of it.

In the 80s used to make my daughter puddings using ground rice with chocolate and pureed apple or rhubarb. More recently I bought some ground rice to make macarons (unsuccessfully) but a quick Google seems to show it's only available in Health Food stores now.

62 and remember it from my childhood, I'm from London

Yep, grew up in Essex and Kent and my mum used to make it as an alternative to Semolina (loved that too).

I have a gorgeous cake recipe that uses ground rice, so I know what it is 🙂

Whitworth's appear to have stopped making ground rice and all the other pudding grains. I guess that means milk puddings are no longer cheap belly busters and are about to become uber fashionable.

Beautiful! My mum used to make it a lot when I was a child and we had it with tinned strawberries. We called it ricelina!

Never heard of it.
South London here.

I believe that stodgy milk puddings were encouraged by the Gov after the war. Children were thin due to rationing.

Loved it and still do (South Yorks growing up) DH was from Suffolk and he loved it but called it 'Wood Pud' - had to ask his mum what it actually was to make it for him

Wasnt it called Cremola

You can also get it in Asian grocers.