Old Fashioned Boiled Rice Pudding

½ cup regular long grain rice (not precooked)

½ cup sugar

1 cup salted water

1 qt. whole milk

½ stick butter

3 eggs

1 cup plump raisins

1 tsp vanilla

3 Tbsp sugar

1 Tbsp cinnamon

Pour rice slowly into rapidly boiling water in large pot. Do no stir. Cover tightly and cook approximately 7 minutes or until water is absorbed. Add the milk and butter, stir a little. Bring to a boil cover and cook slowly over low flame for about one hour. Meanwhile beat eggs. Turn off heat and immediately add sugar and slowly add eggs and raisins into hot mixture stirring until rice starts to thicken. Pour into bowls and sprinkle top with the mixture of cinnamon and sugar. Serve warm or cold.