port royal rice pudding

Ingredients For port royal rice pudding

• 2 1/2 c

  water
• 1 c

  arborio rice
• 2 can

  (12 ounces each) evaporated milk
• 1

  cinnamon stick
• 1 slice

  fresh ginger (a coin shaped slice,peeled, about 1/2 inch thick)
• 1

  lime, juice and peel of (two 1 in wide strips of peel with none of the white)
• 1/4 c

  desiccated coconut (unsweetened)
• 1/2 tsp

  salt
• 1 c

  granulated sugar or 1 cup splenda granular
• 1/4 c

  raisins (soaked in enough rum -malibu is good- to plump the raisins, discard the rum but a much better choice is to add it in if ye no be needin' to be thinkin of the kiddies!)
• 1/2 c

  sweetened flaked coconut
• 1 1/2 tsp

  rum extract (ye may wish to use up to 1/2 cup of the real jamacian made rum if yer workin with grown up piraites )
• 1 tsp

  vanilla extract
• ground cinnamon for garnish
• finely shredded fresh lime zest for garnish