Hot Buttered Sweet Rice
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Who all has had a bowl of Hot Buttered Sweet Rice handed to them by their loving mama or grandmama?
When my Mama was a little girl, she’d come in from school to find her Granny waiting to hear all about her day.
Knowing that kids were hungry after a long day at school, she’d smile when Mama walked in and sit her down at the table…
And put a bowl in front of her.
Then she’d take some rice from the supper she was preparing and scoop some hot right into that bowl…
And add a pat of butter.
And a sprinkling of sugar.
And give it a good stir.
And Mama would eat that entire bowl of warm, sweet, buttery rice.
Sometimes, the very next day before school, Mama would wake up to find her Granny heating up leftover rice to repeat this for a warm and soothing breakfast before she headed off to school.
It sure was good.
Growing up, I was not a breakfast person. My Mom always cooked the eggs, biscuits and bacon or sausage every day and I wouldn’t eat. She tried this one morning and it grew in to the “only” time I would eat breakfast. So precious of her to make a special breakfast for 1 when she was feeding 5 children.
What a precious memory of such a precious Mother!!
Oh my! My dad still eats this for breakfast fairly often! I followed in my mom’s footsteps, however. Rice with crumbled bacon or sausage and sprinkled with salt. She also liked rice with a fresh sliced tomato from the garden and would sprinkle the entire thing with salt. Rice and bacon or rice and sausage were definitely my comfort foods for breakfast growing up. My mom would make it if she knew we were having a test at school or we were going to have a big day ahead of us. My sister’s absolute comfort food is rice with a can of cream of chicken soup mixed in (sprinkled with salt, of course).
Oh my goodness, all of those sound wonderful!!
Yes, I used to love the rice for breakfast. Another one of my favoriate comfort foods was my mama’s chicken and dumplins. When I’d find out that was what we were having for dinner I would be so excited! I love and miss my mama so much. I was so blessed that God gave her to me for the time I had her!
~HUGS~ Deanna she sounds like she was a wonderful woman!!
She was a wonderful Godly woman. The sweetest sounds in my memory are coming home from school and hearing her in the kitchen singing some old hymn.
Nope, I never had tht in my life, either! But I sure ate a lot of rice pudding, growing up. One of my favorite memories growing up was of spending the night at my grandparents house and for breakfast eating what we called sugar-butter biscuits, which was homemade biscuits, hand churned butter, sprinkled with a little sugar! Oh sooo good!!!
Oh my goodness that sounds wonderful!!
Mary Jo T,
My grandmother used to make me the butter, sugar biscuits, it was a delight to visit her and discover that she had leftover biscuits in her cupboard!
Marcia, are we kin? 🙂 Because now that you mention it, we got left over biscuits, too, sometimes when we were not spending the night. Thanks for reminding me!
We would sometimes eat rice as if it were cereal – topped with milk and sugar. Yummy!
Yummy indeed!!
I can’t believe someone else would put sugar on rice. It’s the only way I would eat it as a child and everyone thought I was weird….lol. I also put sugar in my grits.
We will just be weird and wonderful together Norma!!
I thought I was the only person in the world that ate butter and sugar in my grits! I grew up eating rice pudding. Butter and sugar on rice was eaten as well.
Thanks for bringing back my childhood memories!
The first time I had this was when I started 1st grade. About once a month, the lunch ladies would serve us a scoop of white rice with a pat of butter and a good sprinkle of cinnamon sugar. I always insisted on eating it that way at home after that, every time my mother made rice. 🙂
What a precious memory! I love those tastes that bring us back to our childhood.
This sounds so good and I love your story too! I’ve been eating rice pudding quite a bit this week. I was glad to see your post for the recipe early today. I want to make this too. It sounds so good & simple. Your Jewell T bowl is beautiful!!
I hope you get to try it soon Darrelyn!! Thank you so much!