Arroz Con Dulce - Candy Like Rice - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 cups of rice (uncooked)
2 coconuts or cream of coconuts
1/2 tsp salt
2 lbs. of sugar
2 small boxes of raisins
2 or 3 sticks of cinnamon
a piece of ginger root
sweet cloves and anis ( six or seven of both)
2 cans of carnation milk

Preparation

In a sauce pan with sufficient water to cover put the cinnamon, anis, cloves and ginger root. Boil to a dark brownish color.Remove the seeds and ginger and cinnamon and mix the water with the coconut milk and the carnation milk. Using a large sauce pan add the milk mixture to the sugar, salt, and raisins. Bring to a boil for just a minute or two, put the rice in and lower your heat. Stir until mixture begins to thicken. It will be done when the mixture no longer can fall off the spoon. Serve in small plates with a dusting of cinnamon.