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

[SlB09]

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!!!

Wasn’t Cremola a type of custard powder which is made from cornflour.

Never heard of it.

You can buy it abundantly here near me in south London I get it from Asda and local shops it’s very cheap
its pretty tasteless though - it’s basically the same texture and flavour as plain baby rice lol , i use it to thicken dishes
I do sometimes make a pudding out of it with sugar and rose water added but there are nicer grains to use for puddings ( I prefer tapioca or cornmeal / semolina)

Please could you share gorgeous cake recipe to help use up the kgs of ground rice I'll inevitably buy in response to this thread?!

It’s just ground up rice. You can simulate it by putting normal short grain white rice in the blender and chopping it into tinier bits.

I've done this but in a coffee grinder when I could't find any ground rice in the supermarkets. I bought bog standard long grain rice as it seemed pointless to use my usual basmati just to grind it. It was coarser than bought ground rice but still okay and was to go in a rice cake which turned out fine. I think the coarseness would certainly disappear when cooking as a pudding. I have since managed to buy large bags of rice flour which are a lot cheaper and more easily available than the small quantities of ground rice in supermarkets. I find it nicest to mix the home ground rice and rice flour together so that there is still a bit of 'bite' to the recipe

I add it to my shortbread. It gives a really nice, fine, crisp texture.

@mathanxiety theoretically it is just whizzed up rice, however I tried this in my blender and I just ended up with some power and barely any ground rice! Maybe an industrial blender or crusher is needed?!!

Cremola Caramel was a cross between blancmange, custard and instant whip, if I remember correctly. It was solid and served cold.

Cremola Foam was a drink. Wikipedia tells me it was made from crystals which you added to water.

https://www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory/rice-creamola

There was a rice creamola! I spelt it wrong

My mum used to make a great ground rice pudding in the 70s. I've not had one in years though. It doesn't seem to be a thing anymore.

When I was a nipper my mam always made rice cakes at Christmas along with xmas cake (in local parlance spice cake or just spice) . You would get a 'slice of spice, slice of rice and a piece of cheese. All washed down with my aunt's home made ginger wine. Lovely!

It’s a staple at sub continental religious festivals, though it seems to have been invented in China.

I grew up in Devon (in North Yorkshire now, co incidentally!) and ground rice pudding was a staple of my and my children's childhoods. A great way to use up milk (and a huge amount of golden syrup...) and I'd eat it now if I could find it.

I haven't had ground rice pudding for years but it was a common feature of my childhood in the 1960s and 70s, along with other milk puddings like semolina, tapioca, sago, and macaroni.

I was brought up in Somerset but my mother, who would have cooked it, was brought up in what is now a London suburb but was then Surrey.

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Thanks!

Just to revive this thread for a moment, but I got my hands on a bag of ground rice in the world foods aisle the other day and made myself some ground rice pudding for the first time tonight - using the original Whitworths recipe.

All I can say is thank you for introducing this in to my life 😍 🥣

@since1986 so glad you like it!