[Sca-cooks] Real bacon

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:
>  > (Oh, and she also wanted to know what's with the USA and the total lack of
>>  custard.  As in pre-made custard for having with apple pie.  We can buy it
>>  by the carton here - sweet and slightly plastic and not a patch on the real
>>  thing, but with its own obnoxious charm.  Did San Francisco simply have a
>>  dearth when she was living there, or are Americans simply not
>>  custard-conscious??)
>
>Not only are we not custard concious, we really don't even talk about
>custard. Are you discussing frozen custard, or something along the lines
>of what Americans would call vanilla pudding?

It's more of a stirred custard, kind of a thick sauce. A sorta cross 
between zabaglione and vanilla pudding, but a pourable consistency. 
Y'ever have trifle? The custard in question is the sauce poured over 
cake slices, with jam and/or fruit added, all topped with whipped 
cream (sometimes), that forms the trifle. Once upon a time trifle was 
the custard itself, and the rest was just presentation detail.

Adamantius

-- 
"As long as but a hundred of us remain  alive, never will we on any 
conditions be brought under English rule.  It is in truth not for 
glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are  fighting, but for freedom 
-- for that alone, which no honest man gives  up but with life 
itself."
	-- The Declaration of Arbroath, 1320

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