Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and sometimes other ingredients. Different variants are used for either desserts or dinners. When used as a dessert , it is commonly combined with a sweetener.
In Europe , rice pudding with goat’s milk was first used by the Romans for medicinal purposes. For this reason,the first written records of rice pudding occur in medical texts. Medieval European sweet boiled rice pudding often was made with almond or cow’s milk.
Originally used to aid the malnourished, rice pudding was first made in Asia. Over thousands of years, various pudding recipes have developed in Eastern Asia.
Some include jam, cinnamon, fruit and honey, while others are far simpler consisting of only rice ,water and sugar or rice and milk.
For the west, rice pudding originated in the Arab Countries or persia.The dessert gained popularity during the Middle Ages. Firni, one of the oldest of these Middle Eastern puddings, is made with rice flour and was introduced to India by the Moghuls. Records of an Indian sweet milk pudding occur in the 14th century.
Shola,flavored with rose water, was introduced to Persia by the 13th century Mongols and is now eaten in much of wast Asia. However the Indian Kheer has an independent history, as it is older than 2000 years.
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