Made chocolate pudding

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[–]Optimus85 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Bill Cosby wants your recipe.

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The packaged puddings are just sugar, modified corn starch, and flavoring. Jello probably doesn't want people to realize how easy it is to make.

[–]Optimus85 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Ha! The thickening agent is corn starch. I knew it. I looked up the recipe and it's even easier than making bechamel sauce(you have to beat the shit out of the butter and flour to make a nice roux). I'm not sure how I would go about making butterscotch pudding though(artificial flavouring?). Anyway, this poor sap in the recipe's comments failed to realise that the pudding would set and thicken in the fridge and just added more corn starch while it was cooking...

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I'm going to order modified food starch, make it even easier, it doesn't need to be heated to thicken just like the packaged stuff.

Anyway, this poor sap in the recipe's comments failed to realise that the pudding would set and thicken in the fridge and just added more corn starch while it was cooking...

I saw that. That is funny, how did he not notice it thickening at all?

you have to beat the shit out of the butter and flour to make a nice roux

I am super lazy with my roux, just stir it enough to keep from burning. When I was on a diet I noticed you can bake flour in the oven and then use that as a thickener without the oil. It's not as effective at thickening but the calorie savings is nice if you can't use corn starch for whatever reason.

Or just sprinkle flour on fatty meat to have it make a roux in situ when that's appropriate.

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The immersion blender is great for keeping it from getting chunks, just ran it while the pudding thickened on the stove.