Blancmange - a memory
@allknowing (134249)
India
February 10, 2023 9:43pm CST
It was in those day when we had our first fridge. There is nothing that I did not experiment that which needed a fridge - jelly, mousse, china grass, you name it and my favourite blancmange.
Blancmange took hardly any time. The pantry always had corn flour and the other ingredients - sugar, essence mostly cinnamon, food colours. We had many molds too.
Each time I added different food colouring. and even had it in layers.
When did you get your first fridge and did you play with it too?
Image credit:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange
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@RebeccasFarm (89343)
• Arvada, Colorado
11 Feb 23
I do remember having this years ago.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
@RebeccasFarm You hate cooking Right? (lol)
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@RebeccasFarm (89343)
• Arvada, Colorado
11 Feb 23
@allknowing I am lucky to know my own name each day never mind making puddings.
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@florelway (23223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
11 Feb 23
I was still a grader then. I remembered making ice candy made of orange juice. I also made one using mung beans and milk.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
I am sure your mother must have shooed you away from the kitchen
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@florelway (23223)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
11 Feb 23
@allknowing Lol that's true especially that I have a hard time trying the end of the plastic wrapper. 
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@LadyDuck (469689)
• Switzerland
11 Feb 23
I have always seen a refrigerator in the apartment of my parents, so I believe they bought it when they got married in 1950. Blancmange is very easy to make, I only use cream, sugar and gelatin, the taste is better than using corn flour.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
I have always used corn flour and I have liked it very much I use milk and not cream.
I use gelatin for other desserts.
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@LadyDuck (469689)
• Switzerland
11 Feb 23
@allknowing I use 15% fat cream to make blankmange. In France they use 35% fat dairy cream, but it's a bit too fat for me.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
Sad that you only remember having problems with your fridge.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
@JudyEv My experience was after I got married.
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@JudyEv (337744)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb 23
@allknowing Later we were connected to mains power and then we got a 'proper' fridge. This was all before I got married.
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@Beestring (14374)
• Hong Kong
11 Feb 23
When I was about 9, our family bought the first fridge. I've made jelly and red bean popsicles.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
It must have been fun and memories to revive
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@astutimeliana723 (4536)
• Indonesia
11 Feb 23
At first glance it looks like pudding or jelly here. The taste is sweet and chewy, It's delicious very much I like it.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
Jelly as you know is transparent and it is done with geltain but the main ingredient here is corn flour and milk
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@astutimeliana723 (4536)
• Indonesia
11 Feb 23
@allknowing Well you are right, jelly is transparent. For pudding, it's not because it's usually mixed with milk, eggs, and other.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
15 Feb 23
The first thing we did after getting married was to get a fridge and so had no issue with storing My mother managed somehow.
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@snowy22315 (178924)
• United States
11 Feb 23
I have always had a fridge. Blancmange looks like a really interesting dessert. I never really heard of it, but I am a milk fan, and I think I would really like it.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
Was that your first fridge and what experiments did you perform?
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@jstory07 (139060)
• Roseburg, Oregon
11 Feb 23
@allknowing I had a young son and it served its purpose.
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@allknowing (134249)
• India
11 Feb 23
Indeed a heavenly feeling I have tried every kind of dessert that needed cooling (lol)
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