Grandma’s Simple Rice Pudding Recipe

I know you’ll enjoy making our Grandma’s Simple Rice Pudding Recipe with your children. It’s very easy to make, especially when you use Boil In Bag rice.

Growing up, our Mother had a Fanny Farmer’s cookbook that she used all of the time. It was well-worn and many of the pages were covered with fingerprints. Although the recipes inside were wonderful, the fingerprints inside were the important part. They were like breadcrumbs leading you to a trail of our most-loved recipes.

This cookbook was very important to her and it even had a special place of honor in our kitchen pantry. At some point, Mom also started to use it as a trapper keeper of sorts too. Whenever someone passed on one of their family’s favorite recipes, or she came across one in the newspaper, she would stuff it into the pages of her cookbook.

As time went on, her beloved cookbook became quite bloated and was always on the verge of exploding. (Do you remember The Seinfeld episode with George’s wallet?) Anyways, if you didn’t take it down from the top cupboard very, very carefully, bits and pieces of recipes would come showering down all over the place. And when Mom caught you, you got “the look.”

Now that I’m an adult and have a family of my own, I fully understand why Mom coveted these delicious recipes. She loved us and always wanted to feed us delicious, nourishing meals made from scratch. Mom knew that the heart of every home is always the kitchen and she wanted to instill this in us as organically as possible.

When I think back to my most favorite memories of my childhood, they often involve cooking in the kitchen with Mom and Dad, or Grandma and Pop. Whether it was making ice cream or homemade pasta with our parents, or learning how to cook apple pancakes and rice pudding with our Grandparents, we were always in the kitchen.

The funny thing about cooking with your children is that in addition to it being a lovely way to bond with them, it’s also a great learning experience. With every ingredient they sound out and every measurement that they ask me about, they’re using their reading and mathematics skills. As they go find the ingredients in the cupboard or fridge and gather up the measuring cups and spoons, they’re learning. When they get to have a voice in what your family will eat each week, they become more interested in food. It’s an organic way for them to learn. No pressure. No tests. Just good old fashioned fun with lots of love.

So when we were asked to create a recipe using Uncle Ben’s Rice, I immediately knew which one I wanted to share with you all. Our Grandma’s Rice Pudding. It’s incredibly simple to make and whenever our parents went away on a business trip, she would make it for us to eat while we stayed at their house. There is nothing more comforting when Mom and Dad are away than to smell Grandma’s rice pudding simmering on the cooktop while Pop had you painting with flowers at the dining room table.