I Made Pudding

Hello Internet.  Today I had a biology exam.  I seriously had no motivation to study.  It was on gene expression, mitosis, meiosis, cell regulation.  Fun stuff right.  However I kept getting distracted.  For example I downloaded Spotify (which is amazing!) and created a Christmas playlist.  Yeah that's right, Christmas.  I am so ready for Christmas.  Well I'm just ready to go home in general because I'm kinda missing my family.  Well mainly my cat Tibby.  She rocks.  So right now I'm jammin' to All I Want For Christmas is You.  Mariah Carey is the bomb.com.  Hmm what else is new?  Oh speaking of Christmas, there are certain people that I need to see again.  You know who you are.

You know what a delicious dessert is?  Pudding.  This is your answer right.  Well if it's not I don't know why we're friends anymore.  So, I'm majoring in dietetics and most of my classes are going to be food related.  Well, today in my Food Nutrition class I made pudding.  I know what you're thinking.  Hey isn't pudding super easy to make.  It just takes a box and some milk. WRONG! I made homemade pudding.  Which really isn't that difficult to make.  It takes sugar, corn starch, salt, egg yolks, vanilla, and margarine.  See.  These are ingredients that most people have.  If not well it's not that hard to get them.  So, at first I was concerned because it wasn't thickening and it says, let thicken until boils.  It started boiling, but there was very little new thickness.  But it's all good.  So if you want I have attached the recipe. If you make it make sure you keep it off heat until you are ready so, when you add the milk.  Otherwise the sugar heats up and clumps together.  Error right there.  Oh well.  It turned out all good.  Anyways here is the ingredient list and recipe.  Maybe you could make it to impress your families this holiday season.  Enjoy!

1/3 Cup Sugar

2 Teaspoons Cornstarch

1/8 Teaspoon Salt

2 Cups Milk

2 Egg Yolks, beaten

2 Tablespoons margarine (or butter)

2 Teaspoons Vanilla

• 1In 2-quart saucepan, mix sugar, cornstarch and salt. Gradually stir in milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and boils. Boil and stir 1 minute.
• 2Gradually stir at least half of the hot mixture into egg yolks, then stir back into hot mixture in saucepan. Boil and stir 1 minute; remove from heat. Stir in butter and vanilla.
• 3Pour pudding into dessert dishes. Cover and refrigerate about 1 hour or until chilled. Store covered in refrigerator.

• Also, this recipe was given to me by my professor, but it is from the Betty Crocker Cookbook.  No credit goes to me other than the fact that I made it.

xoxo, Caroline