Mary Berry’s. I bought a packet or rice pudding in Coop ages ago and had it sat in the pantry until last weekend. Having made the spring rolls again for supper, it was a good idea to have the rice pudding 2 hours later, as supper was a light one; the rolls were made my way this time, no pork, but prawns were star of the dish, well spicy, as they sat in the marinade ( my usual chilli garlic paste, sesame oil and soy sauce) overnight. Apart from prawns there were quickly pan fried crunchy veggies- bean sprouts, carrots, courgettes, shallots, fresh coriander and mint, this time I got the real deal. They were great, will make them for Mariusz in 2 weeks time.

The rice pud- into a generously buttered dish went 75g of pudding rice, 1 tbsp of sugar and some vanilla sugar, vanilla bean paste, then 1,5 pint of very warm milk. All this went into the oven, uncovered, 140 degrees for about 2 hours, I kept checking, having to lift that brown looking “skin”.

Nice thing, rice pudding. Very creamy, very yummy. Served mine with a simple raspberry compote.