OMG I've created a custard monster!

[GipsyDanger]

Decided to make custard tonight, so I grab the custard powder in the cupboard and loosely follow the instructions.... What have I done?!? It tastes foul and I'm pretty sure I could lay bricks with it. It doesn't even LOOK like custard! It's the wrong colour and everything.

[GipsyDanger]

there are no words

[Muddlingthroughtoo]

I love custard, I'd still eat it!

[jobrum]

From the title I thought you had a child like mine who would do anythibg for that sweet custardy goodness. She would not eat that abomination.

[MrsBellefleur]

Why the hell did you even taste that?!

[GipsyDanger]

The spoon stays upright when I stab it

[GipsyDanger]

Well, it said make a paste out of the powder milk and sugar... I have no sugar so I thought sweeteners would work, hence having to taste it

[Thebookswereherfriends]

Sweetners are evil, I once made porridge and had to use sweetner - never tasted anything so disgusting!

[MrsBellefleur]

Have you tried adding more milk to it a bit at a time? Isn't that what you're supposed to do?

[GipsyDanger]

That is with milk added, it looked like melted cheese when I first took it out the microwave... It was watsit orange

[SocksRock]

I once tried to sieve lumps out of custard while the in laws were sat waiting for dessert. The bastard lumps reformed on the other side of the sieve

[loveulotslikejellytots]

Too much custard powder would be my guess! DH likes his custard thick and it went like that when I over did the powder!

[GipsyDanger]

Its just sitting there in the kitchen. Judging me.

[GipsyDanger]

My dh has taken the spoon and powder and put it on the top cupboard where I can't reach. For the best really

[GipsyDanger]

[GipsyDanger]

Dh says I'm barred "For the atrocities done to custard"

[GherkinsOnToast]

I'd say it's dead! I suspect cause of death was too much power, not enough milk and insufficient stirring.

[GipsyDanger]

Went to bin it and it came out in one go, molded to the shape of the bowl.

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

I always buy ready made custard, I've never managed to get the powdered version to work for me. I'm a good (but grudging and bad-tempered) cook, but some of the simplest things are beyond me. I can't soft boil an egg, it's either still almost raw or hard boiled. I can't make a sponge cake. One of my friends helped me with my sponge issues, I used her recipe, in her kitchen and she supervised me the entire time and the sponge still came out flat as a pancake in the middle. And I can't make custard from powder (although I can successfully make it from scratch, weird).

[Ginmakesitallok]

Jesus woman! How much powder/milk dis you use?

[GipsyDanger]

black I've always said that I'm not a bad cook, just an inventive cook

[BlackAmericanoNoSugar]

That's good, definitely stick with that response.

[QuackDuckQuack]

Was there a tsp/tbsp mix up?

I'm struggling to imagine what the instructions said that meant you made that.