Custard powder custard is not homemade fecking custard.

[notso]

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.

Custard is vile, when I rule the world it will be banned unless in ice cream form.

Are you married to my BIL?

While we're at it, homemade gravy does not mean pouring boiling water over Bisto granules. She actually tuts and rolls her eyes at me for making stock and using the meat fat to make gravy.

basingstoke - 'family time', 'me time', 'made from scratch', 'letting it develop organically' - my top 4

I thought that ClaireDeLoon until I tasted the madagascan vanilla stuff it is like melted icecream, I only like it cold though.
Custard powder custard it grim, just tastes like sweetness and flour.

Homemade pie is another speciality, a tin of filling in her pastry (which is good) is homemade, my homemade filling in shop bought pastry (my own is vile) is devils pie.

at 'homemade sausages'

Real custard is an utter pig to make though...

Don't care what anyone else says, Birds Eye custard powder is the only way to have it.

In fact I think I fell into a vat of it when I was a baby - it gives me special powers

Can I ask what the difference is between custard powder custard & vanilla custard?

Is vanilla custard with eggs & the other not?

Can you get powder for vanilla custard=problem solved

If it is prepared at home, then it is home-made.. rather than bought ready to heat up or serve.

If it is made from scratch, then it means you havent just added a packet of colmans to a couple of chicken drumsticks.. you have actually blended some herbs, added some flour and made a sauce of your own. Either way though, that is still home made.

Oh yes D0G - MIL does that homemade lasangne too.

YANBU.

I used to think that custard powder custard was better until I couldn't be arsed to heat the milk and bought some fresh stuff from sainsbury's.
it was delicious.
I wouldn't eat the tinned stuff, though.

Real custard is very very hard to make - very difficult to make it custard rather than scrambled egg!
The only time I do that is if i'm making custard tarts, because you just can't get away with it otherwise.

diddl

you make vanilla custard with eggs.
:)

(but you can make it any flavour, doens't have to be vanilla, it's just vanilla is the normal flavour)

Birds custard made with powder is the best IMO. Ambrosia tinned is very nice too. The posh ones in the chilled cabinet [eg M+S] are far too sweet and sickly.I have never had made from scratch with eggs, cream and vanilla pods and all that palaver so can't judge.
However I would tell MIL that it's your house and you will dish up whatever you choose. Life doesn't revolve around pleasing her 'special little soldier'.

Gravy made without Bisto is not as nice either.

i agree with Trills

To me homemade means the majority, preferably all of it is made from scratch.

I don't get bisto either, it tastes like thick, salty water.

Brown thick salty water :o

In that case custard tastes like thick sweet milk...

Custard made from custard powder does not have any eggs in it. Homemade custard i.e. from scratch probably would do as do the more expensive ready made custards from the supermarket.

Personally I'll take custard any way it comes

Custard powder custard tastes like yellow, floury, thick sweet milk

I think it can be unfair sometimes to judge other peoples cooking. To some people, making custard out of powder isn't real cooking. To some people, making trifle with canned custard isn't real cooking. But how many children even get to eat powdered custard! Most I know get packet cake and biscuits.
Surely powdered custard is better than other rubbish.
Plus you can limit what sort of milk you use full fat or semi. Plus you can limit what sugar you put it.

I was just recalling that thread DaisySteiner! All seven pages of it.

Notso - has your MIL ever demanded you drop everthing and sample her home made custard? If not you have nothing to complain about

BTW custard powder might make powdery yellow sweet thick milk, but I still prefer it to other shop bought custards. Nothing compares with home made eggy creamy heart killing custard.

I don't understand. Obviously it is homemade! Custard powder is just powdered custard plant - how much more homemade can you get? Some people don't know anything. [hconfused]

Slightly on a tangent but why is custard powder pink in the tub and then turns yellow upon milk being added?

*snark at custard plant