Is anybody else finding it very difficult to find blancmange?
The only store that seems to stock it
any longer is Morrisons, and then only strawberry flavour.
These thoughts are brought about by
today being Ferretfingers’ birthday, and our family tradition of birthday trifle.
From Facebook archives
Ferretfingers will not eat
trifle.
However if I serve the jelly,
blancmange and cake in separate dishes he will quite happily put them all
together in his pudding bowl.
I have almost mastered making chocolate blancmange from scratch rather than a
packet. Sugar, cornflour, drinking
chocolate and milk.
My first effort was
a bit heavy on the powders and you could have bounced pennies off it. Today's moved a little better.
The other day I experimented using a jar of unset
blackberry jam as flavouring as we had some milk going off. I don't think I used enough cornflour and/or
didn't boil it long enough (too small a pan to risk it) so it remains the
consistency of ketchup.
Fester is using
it as a pouring sauce on bananas and, today, the aforementioned kit form
trifle.
Thunderthighs
looked at it in disgust and asked "What's that?"
Before I could speak Fester, licking a dribble off
the spout of the serving jug, replied "Rat's poo."
Thunderthighs "Thanks Compo."
Runs in the family like a wooden
leg, as Mother used to say.
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