The Hazards of Being Sick and a Grown-Up...

[aldersprig]

...is that sometimes you have to make your own comfort food.

Usually, T. makes me things like broth or risotto, and that's wonderful, but this time, I had (have) a sore throat/swollen glands, and I was seriously missing my mom's vanilla pudding, that she used to make me when I was sick sometimes.

I haven't lived at home in 20 years or so, and, besides, my mom's at a yoga seminar on the other side of the country (details are fuzzy) right now.

So I had to make my own.

I used a pretty basic Betty Crocker recipe, and it turned out - not quite like my childhood (not as grainy, and a little too sweet, which could be refined tastes) - but very yummy.

And, ya know? It made me feel better for a bit, too.






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Comments

[clare_dragonfly]

Aww! I'm glad you were able to find something similar to what your mom used to make you :) Now I want vanilla pudding... though I don't know if my mother actually ever made it. It just came from the store.

[aldersprig]

Very little growing up came from the stoker - my mom even made my baby food!

[clare_dragonfly]

Wow! That's very cool.

[aldersprig]

Hippy ;-D

[inventrix]

Grainy, hmmmm... I wonder if she made a flour-based pudding? "Grainy" is how I'd describe one of the textures you can get with a white sauce when starting with a roux, and a flour-based pudding is the same basic concept with different proportions.

[aldersprig]

Hrrm, could be. I don't remember it very well - I kinda regret how little I cared about cooking, back then.

[inventrix]

You should make it into an Epic Cooking Quest! Recreate Mom's Pudding!

[aldersprig]

Epic Pudding! Pudding Every Night!

[inventrix]

Yaaaay!! I still need to give the salted caramel pudding another shot.

Relatedly, do you know how hard it is to find flour-based pudding recipes that don't use tempered eggs? It's hard.

(I don't do tempered eggs. It scares me. <.<)

[inventrix]

(Postscript, the salted caramel pudding recipe I'm using is cornstarch based because I went and bought cornstarch because J was less fond of the taste of the flour-based vanilla pudding I tried.)

[aldersprig]

I have cornstarch! We use it for gravy 4x/year.

[aldersprig]

(cooking icon back yay)

Tempered eggs are tricky, yeah. and the only pudding I know that doesn't use tempered eggs is a tapioca one.

[inventrix]

I think the caramel one I'm using is from smitten kitchen if you want to try one sans eggs!

[aldersprig]

ooh, I should loook that up!