Blancmange Shortage

I used to like Symingtons Table Creams, always felt they were ‘posh’ blancmange.
I remember those. Posher than blancmange

I remember Symingtons Table Creams, much favoured by my mother. I seem to remember in programmes such as Up Stairs Downstairs and Downton Abbey, the cooks referring to something as ‘Shapes’ for pudding, I wonder whether these were a forerunner of blancmange?

lemongrove

Greenfinch

I always make chocolate blancmange by adding cocoa to custard powder.

Thanks Greenfinch I usually make a chocolate trifle for DGC especially at Christmas, and I have tried and failed to get any choc blancmange with my food deliveries.How much cocoa powder would you add for a pint of custard?

lemongrove I remember going to a friend's for dinner; she knew DH loves trifle but what she didn't know is that he dislikes anything chocolately. She had made a very posh Black Forest trifle. He manfully forced down one large helping

Blancmange is a very old pudding and started off as a savoury dish:

britishfoodhistory.com/2019/06/15/blancmange/

It's a pity if it disappears altogether

Chocolate blancmange - or chocolate pudding as my mother always called it, is very easy to make with cornflour, cocoa powder, milk and sugar.
I hardly ever make it but dh adores it!

In case anyone wants to know, my very old recipe for choc. Blancmange uses 40g/1 1/2 oz cornflour, 25g/ 1 oz cocoa powder, 75g/3 oz caster sugar, and a pint of milk.

Recipe also says a few drops of vanilla essence but I never add it because I loathe the smell of vanilla.

Petra Blancmange Shortage that I posted on 16 December. Six sachets of strawberry blancmange arrived today. Just in time for Christmas Day. Thank you so much. It was on Amazon for a hugely inflated price. But the British Corner Shop delivered the goods for 50p a sachet. Result!

you can also buy it here, I'm not sure how prices compare with British Corner shop ,I've not checked

www.greenscakes.co.uk/product-category/blancmange/

Ha ha re raisins Bb !!

My christmas`s werelike yours Jaxjacky.

I was brought up on it and always bought it and yes I have the rabbit mould. I was struggling to get it for a while my husband went shopping in November. He came home with single sachets of vanilla flavour Pearce and Duffs from Morrisons. I was so delighted I went back and bought a few more. When it was available in a box chocolate was the one flavour I never used. When for a while I could not get it I made up jelly and whisked in evaporated milk when it was cooing down. It's an old fashioned pudding which reminds me of childhood. It is possible to buy it on line too its expensive but you get one life so enjoy.

I’ve been making milk jelly and have been liquidising fresh fruit to add to it. I tried to make a trifle the other day, though, and can’t work out how to get the trifle sponges to stay at the bottom of the trifle. It didn’t occur to me that they would float to the top.