Recipe - Mimis Custard Rice Pudding

3 Eggs
4 cup Milk
One half cup Sugar
pn Salt
1 One half teaspoon Vanilla extract
1 One half teaspoon Lemon zest
1 One half teaspoon Orange zest
One fourth cup Raisins or dried currants
1 cup Long grain rice; cooked
Cinnamon & nutmeg to taste
Heavy cream as garnish

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Lightly grease the insides of an 8inchsquare glass or ceramic baking
dish with about 1 tsp. unsalted butter.

3. Beat eggs into milk and strain through sieve into mixing bowl. Stir in
all the remaining ingredients except cinnamon or nutmeg and cream. Pour
into buttered baking dish and smooth top until level.

4. Place baking dish in slightly larger baking pan. Pour in enough boiling
water to come halfway up the sides of baking dish. Bake in preheated oven
for 30 minutes. Stir pudding gently so that rice and raisins are
distributed evenly throughout. Continue baking for 30 minutes, then stir
again.

5. Carefully smooth top of pudding until level, then sprinkle with cinnamon
and/or nutmeg. Continue baking for 20 minutes or until pudding is set,
adding more boiling water to baking pan if needed to maintain level. Lift
pudding from water bath and cool at room temperature. Serve slightly warm
or well chilled. Sweet cream can be poured over individual protions
arranged in saucers.

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