Instant pudding

Cuisine Food & Drink
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Vanilla Pudding (serves 5)

I’ve made this one before. My friends liked it, but I didn’t taste it, not being one for desserts.

Ingredients:
2 cups of milk
Half cup of white sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
A quarter teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon butter

Directions:
In medium saucepan over medium heat, heat milk until bubbles form at edges. In a bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Pour into hot milk, a little at a time, stirring to dissolve. Continue to cook and stir until mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon. Do not boil. Remove from heat, stir in vanilla and butter. Pour into serving dishes. Chill before serving

Courtesy of allrecipies.com

You could substitute the vanilla extract for strawberry/ lemon/ banana essence, or chocolate pieces, I’m sure.

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That’s not instant enough. I like the chief’s recipe.

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Ok, I got a different version:

800ml milk
6 tbs corn starch
2-3 tbs sugar
1 eggyolk
1 tsp vanilla
(3-4 tbs of coco powder (not the kind for instant milk))

Mix milk, corstarch and sugar in a pot, bring to the boil while stirring.
Remove the pot from the heat and mix in the egg yolk and vanilla (and coco if you want chocolate pudding).
Pour into a container, or several smaller ones, leave to cool.

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Nice, Mr Swede. I prefer your recipe to mine, by virtue of the egg.

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you can also do a pudding with those extra egg whites that you don’t know how to use:

  • turn of the oven (180ºC), needs to be very hot when you put the pudding
  • beat the egg whites until you get them solid, while adding some drops of lemon juice
  • add one tablespoon of sugar per egg, continue beating
  • cover the pot with butter (preferably one with a hole in the middle… it is a pudding, you know)
  • put the mixture on the pot and send it to oven
  • when the top is golden, your pudding is ready. Turn off the oven but let the pudding inside

That’s it. You can cover it with whatever you want, including jam’s or something else…

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You forgot the wasabi.

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If you go to the Philippines this summer (or you know somebody who will), you can buy a lot of North American-type dry foodstuffs and ship them back to Taiwan. You can carry them in your luggage or ship them to yourself by General Delivery surface mail (it takes two months to arrive). Customs officers will never give you a hassle over dry goods (read: powders and dried plants).

Last summer I bought 20 Jello instant puddings (along with a lot of other things) for under US$1 each. Most other foodstuffs are a fraction of the price here: a package of gravy mix at Jason’s will run you about US$3, but at Philippine supermarkets they go for US$0.50.

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Thanks everyone!!! :bravo: :bow: