SN 7.8 milk-rice and ghee?

I have difficulties identifying the ‘milk-rice’ in the following verses of SN 7.8 - could somebody help me out?

Now at that time ghee and milk-rice had been set out for the brahmin Bhāradvāja the Fire-Worshipper, who thought…
Tena kho pana samayena aggikabhāradvājassa brāhmaṇassa sappinā pāyaso sannihito hoti

…may enjoy this milk-rice.
somaṃ bhuñjeyya pāyasan

Is maybe soma translated as milk-rice? and if so, why?

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Milk-rice is pāyāsa (also spelled pāyasa).

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With metta

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sounds ewwwie :neutral_face: