Custard Making...

[jcb33]

Ok so I just had a very bad atempt at this.

I had to tablespoon so I added 4 Heaped pudding spoons full of custard powder (Said 2 tablespoons) and 4 of Sugar.

I then added a tiny amount of milk to it and made it into a paste, and boiled the rest of the pint on the cooker, I then poored the milk when boiled into the custard and stired, but it came out extreamly thin, water like so I decided to thicken it...

I added some more powder but that did not work, so I strained it off, put it back in the saucepan and made some more paste in my bowl, I then mixed it all together but it was still water like!

I then read to bring it back to the boil so I did this it took around 1 min and the custard then turned into large lumps of unedible goo!

Rinse and repeat, I get to the stange of pooring into my bowl its much thicker this time (Well I used the remaining half of my custard powder) but there was not enough so I added a little more milk and stuck it in the microwave for 1 min to heat again, but the custard again went lumpy!

I strained off what I could,

2 Pints of milk, and a 300G Tub of custard powder later I am now sitting with a bowl of (Already cold and to sweet) Custard and swiss roll....

Any tips on doing this more successfully next time? I made it this exactly way before with someones help and it came out perfect

 

[jcb33]

i use 1oz (roughly one heaped desert spoon) suger to 1oz powder for every pint of milk, whisk it all together till there are no lumps and bring to boil (on a lowish med heat)then simmer till thick.
it might depend on what mixture you use for quantitys, what did the instructions say?

2 Tablespoons Powder, 1-2 Sugar, 1 Pint Milk.... Was told to make it by the family:

Mix powder + sugar with tiny bit of milk into thick paste
Boil milk
Add together, stir + eat

But that seems to not work.... At all well when I do it myself

 

[jcb33]

The custard powder i use at work (be damned if im gonna make the real stuff!) thickens up as you simmer it, thats probably were you go wrong

Aye sounds like it, im using way to much to make it the way I was told and then when I put it in the pan it goes *Boom good time* and all gooey