[Sca-cooks] Fwd: [CAID] In need of Sweet Recipes!

[Elaine Koogler]

Ana Valdes wrote:
> In Sweden the sweet dish eaten in Christmas from old times is a
> porridge made with rice and milk, sweetened with sugar or honey and
> with almonds on it. "You cook about a cup of rice in a cup of water,
> then once the rice is done and the water is absorbed, begin adding
> five cups of milk (I'd suggest whole milk), about a cup at a time,
> until all the milk is absorbed. You can add cinnamon and sugar if you
> like, but the traditional recipe includes no sweetener and definitely
> not an egg.
>
> Serve after stirring in one blanched almond and (if you want) one
> golden raisin. The person who gets the almond, the tradition goes,
> gets a gift."
>
> The traditional recipe add not sugar but many friends and myself do.
> Ana
>
> On 9/14/06, Karin Burgess <avrealtor at prodigy.net> wrote:
>   
Actually, I sent my recipe directly to the lady.  Weren't we supposed to 
do that?

Kiri

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