Rice Pudding Gets a Lebanese Spin at Detroit’s Selden Standard

While Selden Standard pastry chef Lena Sareini was growing up in the suburbs of Detroit, her Lebanese grandmother would use extra milk to make rice pudding thickened with mastic resin. “It was her secret ingredient,” says Sareini. The nostalgic childhood treat inspired her newest summer dessert: An Arabic rice pudding made with reduced milk, basmati rice, sugar, orange-flower water, rose water, and mastic, which helps...