Custard powder custard is not homemade fecking custard.

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I know there are more important issues in the world, but if I don't rant I may explode.

MIL has just scoffed her ass off at me for buying vanilla custard from Sainsburys, saying DH would far prefer her 'homemade' custard powder bloody custard and I should put the effort in.
She heats up milk and stirs = homemade,
I heat up custard and stir = lazy cow.

Oh and DH prefers the vanilla one to her lumpy old shit anyway.

yanbu... i had a friends tell facebook she had made 'homemade' sausage,mash and peas...

YABU as custard is on a par with bananas, beetroot, eggs and cucumber as foods of the devil

but YANBU about your custard issue. tell her the proof is in the pudding

Totally agree - to be homemade, you have to be using eggs, cream etc. Otherwise you're as well, if not better using the tinned stuff.

YANBU

A friend once bragged to me that she'd made her own breadcrumbs by just grating a slice of bread - amazing!

I thought Birds wasn't making custard powder any more?

YANBU -
reminds me of MIL's 'homemade' lemon meringue pie -with bought pastry case and bought filling mix. I suppose she gets a few extra points for making the meringue though

Surely to make proper homemade breadcrumbs QK, one must crumble the bread between ones rose fragranced fingers before tossing them in Alpine Air?

Grating bread is common.

YABU - she's his mum, she makes his custard, he pretends he likes it and so the world turns.

Rant away though - I fall into the 'fuck off with your made from scratch smuggery' food camp.

i think it might be a generation thing. my dad thinks my mums custard is superior to mine cos hes is made from powder and mine is from tinned.

Perhaps its just what they were brought up to believe.

Agent, MILs have secret cupboards full of the stuff. It's next to the brown packets of bisto powder and Pears soap. And the sterilising fluid.

Home made = made at home - let it go people, LET IT GO

'Pffft'

'Scuse you.

How typical of the dog to let off

Seriously, is that not what custard is? Birds custard powder + whatever else you need to add? I thought custard powder was to custard as flour is to bread... Non-homemade custard would be the sort that comes ready-made in a tin!

My friend makes her "speciality home made chicken casserole" with chicken thighs and a tin of campbells mushroom soup.

Made from scratch custard isn't as nice.

DoMe

Why don't you send her an actual recipe for custard made without powder and ask where exactly the Birds Powder is.

I make homemade pizza with a box of pizza mix, a bag of grated cheese, a jar of that tomatoey shit, and a mushroom.

It's an actual fresh mushroom, mind.

This is reminding me of the 'homemade' banoffee pie thread where the poster's SIL made everyone come round to taste her banoffee pie that she'd made by opening a jar of caramel sauce

I prefer custard powder custard to both tinned custard and real custard.

'Made from scratch' is right up there with 'as a family' for me. I find it a bit oppressive...

She probably has it stock piled AgentZigzag, she does pudding and custard everyday.

Arf - wellwisher - real custard has NO custard powder - recipe