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poliphiloAnd then there's custard.
Proper custard is concocted out of milk, egg yolk and sugar, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the economy version- which is a powder you mix with milk to create a thick, bright yellow glop which grows a skin if allowed to cool. The magic ingredient is cornflour. It masks the flavour of whatever you drop it on and tastes of nothing. I mean, what exactly is the point?
When I was a kid they smothered it on everything. Some kids (Ailz for example) got a taste for it and adopted it as a beloved comfort food. For me it's a symbol of oppression.
Show me the tin- with its three happy tweety-birds- and I flip straight back to Cumnor House School with its Oliver Twist-like dining arrangements and its perpetually grim-faced headmaster. Why do people who hate children go into education? Maybe because there's nothing else they're good for. *sigh*.
I feel a rant coming on so I'll shut up.
Alfred Bird- the Birmingham chemist- who invented custard powder for a wife who loved custard but was allergic to eggs- Awwwww.
Proper custard is concocted out of milk, egg yolk and sugar, but that's not what I'm talking about here. I'm talking about the economy version- which is a powder you mix with milk to create a thick, bright yellow glop which grows a skin if allowed to cool. The magic ingredient is cornflour. It masks the flavour of whatever you drop it on and tastes of nothing. I mean, what exactly is the point?
When I was a kid they smothered it on everything. Some kids (Ailz for example) got a taste for it and adopted it as a beloved comfort food. For me it's a symbol of oppression.
Show me the tin- with its three happy tweety-birds- and I flip straight back to Cumnor House School with its Oliver Twist-like dining arrangements and its perpetually grim-faced headmaster. Why do people who hate children go into education? Maybe because there's nothing else they're good for. *sigh*.
I feel a rant coming on so I'll shut up.
Alfred Bird- the Birmingham chemist- who invented custard powder for a wife who loved custard but was allergic to eggs- Awwwww.
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Re: marmalade
Date: 2007-11-25 04:27 pm (UTC)My mother used to make jam and marmalade. It's one of those things you did if you were a mid-20th century, middle-class, English housewife. She was very good at it. She also brewed the best beer I've ever tasted.
Generational thing...
Date: 2007-11-25 04:53 pm (UTC)My mother came of age during the 1950s and whole-heartedly embraced anything frozen or pre-packaged. I preferred eating at grandma's house.
I've never actually had home-brewed beer. I have friends who brew beer from kits, but I've never sampled it. I'm not much of a drinker, though...