Milk puddings such as flaked rice, tapioca, rice pudding, macaroni, ground rice and porridge/ready brek can all be bought in packet form and made up.

Add sugar, honey, jam, fruit sauces, maple syrup or chocolate spread for a variety of flavours. You can also add drinking chocolate powder and less sugar to the milk when making it up to give a different flavour, look out for the wide range of flavoured drinking chocolates e.g. white chocolate, mint and orange.

Turkish Dessert

Cremola

Turkish Dessert

Contains Gluten, Dairy, Nuts

Vegetarian

Ingredients

• 1-2 tbsp flour
• 3 tbsp ground rice
• 2 pints milk
• 3 tbsp sugar
• 3 tbsp orange blossom or rose water
• 4 ozs ground almonds
  

Instructions

1. Mix flour and rice to a paste with some milk.
   
2. Bring rest of milk to boil and sugar.
   
3. Add paste slowly, stirring constantly until it thickens.
   
4. Add orange blossom, stir and cook for 2 minutes.
   
5. Stir in almonds.
   
6. Cool and serve.

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This delicious, nutritious and easy to swallow/digest ground-rice milk pudding is no longer on sale as a pre-prepared mix but it is easy to make.

Contains Gluten, Dairy

Vegetarian

Serves 3 - 4

Ingredients

• 2 heaped tablespoons of ground rice
• 1 rounded tablespoon of custard powder
• 1 dessertspoon of raw cane sugar or white sugar if desired
• half teaspoon of vanilla extract
• 1 pint (500ml) milk (skimmed, semi or full-fat but not soya or re-constituted powder)
• butter or margarine
• ground nutmeg to garnish

Instructions

1. Whilst heating the milk in a large (at least 1.5pt/750ml) saucepan mix the dry ingredients in a pint/500ml ovenproof bowl along with a little milk to make a paste of double-cream thickness and add the vanilla extract.
   
2. When the milk has reached boiling point pour it slowly into the bowl, stirring gently until the sugar has dissolved, then pour the mixture back into the pan and return to the heat. Stirring continuously, bring the mix back to a gentle boil for about 3 to 4 minutes until it thickens like a custard.
   
3. Then return the boiled mixture to the bowl and dot the surface with about 3 half teaspoon-sized knobs of butter or margarine, sprinkle 2 or 3 good pinches of nutmeg over the top. Bake in the bottom of a pre-heated oven at gas 5 (375 F or 190 C) for 45 minutes.
   
4. Serve hot or cold with or without extra milk as desired.