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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 9:01:02 GMT -5
I love most puddings, pretty much everything except bread pudding and rice pudding. For me, it's always more about texture than taste. My favorite is tapioca, followed by banana, butterscotch, chocolate and vanilla. Also a HUGE custard fan. My siblings and I have wonderful memories of our mother making homemade pudding, serving it fresh off the stove with a skin forming on top as it cooled (this was long before instant or pre-packaged). Sigh. Cei-U! Now I want pudding, dammit! My introduction to the very concept of tapioca came via a TV viewing of the 1954 western "Siege at Red River" (as I just found out ... I remembered the word but had no idea of the movie till I hit Google just now) when I was a kid; I wasn't introduced to the pudding until I was in my late 20s at the very earliest. Good stuff indeed. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 15, 2016 9:49:50 GMT -5
Tapioca, indeed, has been a long time favorite of mine. And yet I've known quite a few people who actually hate it. I've never known a pudding that elicited such a negative reaction with some folks. There's something about tapioca that galvanizes opinions. Tapioca-the controversial pudding
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 15, 2016 10:11:06 GMT -5
Favorite Pudding Flavors - No Particular Order Butterscotch Dark Chocolate Strawberry Creme Vanilla Tapioca Also in no particular order: chocolate vanilla lemon butterscotch |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 10:13:14 GMT -5
Favorite Pudding Flavors - No Particular Order Butterscotch Dark Chocolate Strawberry Creme Vanilla Tapioca Also in no particular order: chocolate vanilla lemon butterscotch I do love lemon too ... great mind think alike! |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 15, 2016 10:29:15 GMT -5
Has pistachio been mentioned? Apparently not.
Accordingly -- pistachio is good, too.
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Post by berkley on Mar 15, 2016 10:32:50 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever tried tapioca pudding but whenever I hear it mentioned it always reminds me of this bit Steve Martin did at a Jack Lemmon tribute:
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 15, 2016 10:39:12 GMT -5
Tapioca, indeed, has been a long time favorite of mine. And yet I've known quite a few people who actually hate it. I've never known a pudding that elicited such a negative reaction with some folks. There's something about tapioca that galvanizes opinions. Tapioca-the controversial pudding I'm the only one in my family who actually likes tapioca pudding. Mostly they don't care for the texture of the tapioca "pearls".
Interestingly enough, the cassava plant that tapioca is made from contains a substance that if the plant isn't processed properly can turn into cyanide.
There is a story that the plant was first discovered to be edible by someone stranded and starving who decided to commit suicide by eating the plant he knew to be poisonous rather than starve to death. He boiled up a pot of the cassava, but discovered that the plant was not only not poison after being cooked, but produced a starch that he was able to survive on until he was rescued.
A nice story, but by all accounts the South American natives knew all about cooking and eating the plant long before Europeans took credit for it. So the tale appears to be apocryphal.
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Post by Rob Allen on Mar 15, 2016 12:45:03 GMT -5
Tapioca pearls are an essential ingredient in bubble tea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea"Taiwanese tea-based drink invented in Taichung in the 1980s.[1] Most bubble tea recipes contain a tea base mixed/shaken with fruit or milk, to which chewy tapioca balls or fruit jellies are often added. [...] The two most popular varieties are bubble milk tea with tapioca and bubble milk green tea with tapioca." People who don't like tapioca pudding probably won't like bubble tea either. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 15, 2016 22:15:17 GMT -5
Pudding Pondering
Is custard officially a pudding? I had to know so an internet search revealed this-via Chowhound .com
The classic American dessert known as pudding is a sweetened milk mixture thickened with cornstarch, then cooked. It has no eggs in it, and is also known as blancmange in fancy cooking terminology. (The term pudding is used widely for other foods, but we’ll save blood pudding, Yorkshire pudding, bread pudding, and steamed pudding for another time.)
Custard is pudding’s eggy cousin. The New Food Lover’s Companion defines custard as a dessert made with a sweetened mixture of milk and eggs that can be either baked or stirred using gentle heat. According to the more technical explanation in Le Cordon Bleu’s Professional Baking manual, custard is “a liquid thickened or set by the coagulation of egg protein.” Crème brûlée is a custard, for example.
But it’s not quite as simple as saying, “If it has eggs it’s custard; if it has starch it’s pudding.” Professional Baking points out that there is an overlap: Cream puddings, it says, use a custard base but are thickened with starch. Pastry cream (the stuff you find in an éclair) is a cream pudding—a custard-pudding hybrid.
Good enough for me. To keep life simple I'm going to consider them all in the same family. With or without an egg base, I'll not nit-pick nor quibble.I'll save those mental gyrations for the calculations of how much should I consume in one sitting
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Post by berkley on Mar 15, 2016 23:49:02 GMT -5
That's funny, because I think of pudding as being a little less "runny" or liquid-like than custard.
Re bread puddings, we always used to have something we called Yorkshire pudding with Sunday dinner when I was growing up in Newfoundland, but I have no idea if it's the real Yorkshire pudding like they have in England. I'll have to ask my mother next time I'm home where she learned to make it.
And what about dumplings - is that a kind of pudding too?
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 16, 2016 8:18:11 GMT -5
That's funny, because I think of pudding as being a little less "runny" or liquid-like than custard. Re bread puddings, we always used to have something we called Yorkshire pudding with Sunday dinner when I was growing up in Newfoundland, but I have no idea if it's the real Yorkshire pudding like they have in England. I'll have to ask my mother next time I'm home where she learned to make it. And what about dumplings - is that a kind of pudding too? In my experience (bearing in mind I'm not a pastry chef), custard tends to be more firm due to the egg content (like a crème brulee) and pudding tends to be softer and less likely to hold its form.
Dumplings really have nothing to do with pudding. They're more closely related to a biscuit dough or an extremely soft thick noodle than anything.
These are also all American observations. International versions may differ.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 16, 2016 8:31:04 GMT -5
Dumplings really have nothing to do with pudding. They're more closely related to a biscuit dough or an extremely soft thick noodle than anything.
To the point that one shortcut for making dumplings if you're not up to doing them from scratch is dumping canned biscuit dough into boiling water or stock. |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 16, 2016 12:10:02 GMT -5
Walking on Custard
Can a person custard-walk. A group of scientists conduct an experiment to determine if this can be done. An important project, one never knows what to expect when we embark on interplanetary travel and conditions on planets outside our solar system. Pay attention to the monologue here because I hear corn-starch mentioned a few times but did not hear or see any eggs. And the term "Industrial Custard" is used which seems to be something I will need to research. Or it would be appreciated if someone here is already familiar with industrial custard and is willing to enlighten us
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 16:12:35 GMT -5
In The Court Of The Pudding King
I am about to propose a theory that is so mind-boggling revolutionary but first it needs to be prepped with an article found on this link.
It's the story of King George I- known as The Pudding King. Really. Pudding King
There's background info on the mysteries of Plum Pudding, Christmas Pudding, England's Pudding Fixation
I'll be back soon with what it all means
foodhistorjottings.blogspot.com/2012/02/pudding-king.html |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 20:54:14 GMT -5
Ish Kabbible - Interesting Stuff you put out about the Pudding King. 
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