Pineapple Horchata(Mexico) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 pineapple
12 cups water
1 cup rice (I like to use brown rice but white is traditional)
1 cup sugar (to taste)

Preparation

Trim and core the pineapple, adding the pieces to a large pot(just use core and skin trimmings-so thrifty!).
Sprinkle in the rice and water. Mix it up good.
Let simmer, covered, for 30 minutes. Remove the skin and core, then puree the rice water with up to 2 cups cubed pineapple.
You can use an immersion blender, or a regular blender but be careful - cool before blending.
Strain the horchata and whisk together with as much sugar as you'd like. One cup is about right.
You may drink this straight and it will be a smoothie consistency, or you can dilute it with water to make a thinner cocoction.
Either way , add a spear of sweet pineapple.