[Sca-cooks] Real bacon (now custard)

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Jessica Tiffin:
>At 12:50 AM 10/6/04, Jadwiga wrote:
>>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?
>Well, difficult to say... what _do_ Americans call vanilla pudding? 
>;>.  Actually, other posts have covered this; custard is a milk or 
>cream sauce, thickened with eggs and sweetened, usually cooked in a 
>double boiler or it curdles. Use in place of cream on most desserts. 
>Or in addition to cream, if you're my non-health-conscious late 
>grandmother.  Not frozen, no.

As I say, this exact substance (except made with milk/cream, eggs, 
sugar, and vanilla) is called creme anglaise. We'd call it custard 
sauce. Interestingly enough, the best ice creams (regardless of what 
hacks like the Haagen-Dazs people will tell you) are made by freezing 
a cream-based custard. "Frozen Custard" is an ice-cream-type 
dessert/substitute made with milk as the custard basis, and lacking 
the requisite cream or butterfat required by gummint regulations to 
be called Ice Cream. But technically, the best ice creams in the 
world are actually frozen custard made from cream. You can eat about 
a tablespoon of the stuff and you just die. Die happy, but die.

>Here in South Africa we can get custard powder or the premade 
>version, stored, as someone else noticed, in cardboard cartons like 
>fruit juice.  My friend couldn't even find the powder anywhere in 
>America, though.   We do get the flavoured versions, a few of them - 
>caramel comes to mind.  The standard stuff is pretty heavily vanilla 
>and, as Adamantius notes, is artificially stabilised.  Very creamy, 
>smooth, pouring consistency.  Curiously comfort food, actually, 
>despite its obvious artificiality.

Was it Dow or Dupont (or maybe 3M) that had the slogan "Better Living 
Through Chemistry..."?

>thanks to all commenters - we now return you to your scheduled bacon 
>question, which I have successfully sidetracked... there is no end 
>to my evil!
>
>JdH
>
>Baroness Jehanne de Huguenin (Jessica Tiffin) * Drachenwald Chronicler
>Shire of Adamastor, Cape Town, South Africa
>melisant at iafrica.com ***  http://users.iafrica.com/m/me/melisant
>There is only one rule in the SCA: "Thou shalt not be tacky". All 
>the rest is commentary. (Barak Raz, Silverwing's Laws 1).

Gosh! I wonder if Raz knows he's being quoted in South Drachenwald? 
"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

Adamantius

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