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Veteran Member darice@mindspring.com 255 posts Joined: Feb 8, 2006 Options |
Posted to Thread #23852 at 11:46 pm on Feb 15, 2013
everything I have made with it has not thickened!
I keep thinking that it was my technique but.... |
Other messages in this thread:
- 23852. Problem: Just made scratch vanilla pudding from "New Joy of Cooking" : A Puzzle. . . - mistral - 2:46am on 02/15/13 (17)
- I think it has to be the heat & steam build up. I do the exact same process - Melissa Dallas - 3:18am on 02/15/13
- I think you're right Melissa because I do the same thing with great results. - cheezz - 5:49am on 02/15/13
- I always put a tea towel between lid and pot so that moisture from lid doesn't drip back into pot - Elenor - 4:23am on 02/15/13
- When finished cooking, I put a tea towel between the lid and saucepan so that - Elenor - 4:32am on 02/15/13
- mistral, thank you for describing so clearly the problem I've run into. I just assumed it was me and - MarilynFL - 12:23pm on 02/15/13
- Thank you all for your advice. Let me state, this was not a dilution of the pudding. . . - mistral - 5:24pm on 02/15/13
- I've always mixed the eggs into the sugar and cornstarch, tempered, and brought to a simmer This way - charlie - 8:26pm on 02/15/13
- Ditto. [NT] - Meryl - 9:21pm on 02/15/13
- And when I added the yolks, it thickened more, but it still failed. . . ! (more) - mistral - 10:27pm on 02/15/13
- Straining it at the end would take care of any stray egg pieces. There was so little - Meryl - 11:27pm on 02/15/13
- I recently bought TJ's cornstarch and (more) - daricem - 11:46pm on 02/15/13
- Bad cornstarch can definitely exist, but in mistral's case, it served very little purpose-bad or not [NT] - Meryl - 11:49pm on 02/15/13
- I've been using Argo for many years, & it's always been perfect. But once I bought a store brand and [IMAGE] - Meryl - 11:52pm on 02/15/13
- I always bring the pudding back to boil after adding yolks. Then add butter. - PatBastrop - 12:45pm on 02/16/13
- Just saying - don't know for sure but I believe the problem could be... - Lucegoosejoanie - 5:10pm on 02/16/13
- I found this possible answer to the thickening problem--maybe the pud had cooled down... [NT] - charlie - 6:47pm on 02/16/13
- sounds like you and Pat have the right idea - bring temp back up after adding yolks [NT] - cheezz - 12:22am on 02/17/13