de@moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) (01/17/86)
A recent article contained a recipe for pudding that included eggs. This would make it more of a custard than a pudding, and would certainly reduce the health value. The back of the Corn Starch box we have (which is obviously not here at work) contains a recipe for pudding that does not include eggs. It is delicious, and takes as much time as the "instant". I have trouble eating corn starch, but you can substitute flour for the corn starch. You just have to be more careful in the stirring. As a matter of fact, you have to stir briskly in order to avoid having lumps. A whisk works wonders (good alliterations that). David Esan (Rochester!ritcv!moscom!de)
jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) (01/20/86)
> > A recent article contained a recipe for pudding that included eggs. This > would make it more of a custard than a pudding, and would certainly reduce > the health value. The back of the Corn Starch box we have (which is obviously > not here at work) contains a recipe for pudding that does not include eggs. > > It is delicious, and takes as much time as the "instant". > > I have trouble eating corn starch, but you can substitute flour for the > corn starch. You just have to be more careful in the stirring. As a matter > of fact, you have to stir briskly in order to avoid having lumps. A whisk > works wonders (good alliterations that). > > David Esan > (Rochester!ritcv!moscom!de) The Jell-O company has perverted the notion of pudding. It is not necessarily a homogeneous glop made from cornstarch. My dictionary defines pudding as "a dessert having flour or some other cereal as a foundation, with added eggs, milk, fruit, sugar, spices, etc." Many old-fashioned puddings do not resemble custards: bread pudding, Yorkshire pudding, rice pudding, plum pudding. Flour is not a very good substitute for cornstarch. It is opaque, and tends to get pasty and lumpy. Potato starch, arrowroot, and tapioca flour all make better substitutes for cornstarch than flour does. -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff