Recipe - Christmas Porridge

1 cup Rice
2 qt Boiling water
2 tablespoon Butter
1 teaspoon Salt
2 tablespoon Sugar
5 cup Milk
1 Blanched whole almond
Cinnamon or grated almonds
Sugar
Cold milk

Add washed and drained rice to boiling water. Again bring to a boil and
cook, uncovered, 1 minute. Drain rice thoroughly; add butter. Add rice,
salt and sugar to milk in top of double boiler. Cover and cook over gently
boiling water until rice is tender and milk is absorbed, about 2 hours.
Pour into serving dish and stir in almond. Sprinkle top generously with
cinnamon and sugar or grated almonds and sugar. Serve with cold milk.
Yield: 8 servings.

(Julgrot) Christmas rice porridge is a part of the traditional Christmas
Eve supper. According to an old Swedish tradition and practiced in many
homes in American each person must compose and recite a rhyme before
touching the porridge and the one who gets the almond hidden in the
porridge will marry during the coming year.
Posted to recipeludigest Volume 01 Number 333 by "Diane Geary"
diane@keyway.net on Dec 1, 1997