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So I have been craving English food recently so I went on the hunt to find something similar here in the usa... I found nothing... Well I googled British food and something came up on google in my area so I called them and they had a small foreign section. I immediately drove there and to my amazement they had birds custard powder.... I just made some and I am so full I feel sick... So worth it though. I forgot how good it is.

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This happens to me quite a lot. I usually don't eat the custard by itself though, usually I make it to put in a trifle! :lol:

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Surely you didn't eat it on its own? :unsure: I love Custard, but it needs a pie or sponge pudding. :nod:

All I have ever found is "a small British section", which included Birds Custard, and very small jars of Vegemite for $10! After almost thirteen years here I decided to splurge on my first "British"* grocery purchase. :o

* Vegemite was as close as I was going to get, and I had taken a detour on the way home just to buy some Marmite.

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Custard and Treacle Pudding...mmm

(I guess I can lose weight in the New Year.)

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Eggs, sugar, half and half....a bit of vanilla......presto, custard.

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You forgot the "time" and the "patience". :rolleyes:

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Custard, yes, but not Birds custard.

Sugar, Modified Starch, Whey Powder, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Cream Powder, Milk Proteins, Thickeners (Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Carrageenan), Flavourings, Colours (Beta Carotene, Annatto)
:eek:

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My local Kroger usually has Ambrosia Devon Custard in a tin. That takes even less time and patience than Custard powder. Which I have never trusted since I was very young and discovered it was pink in the tin but yellow once you make it. Clearly some kind of Devil pudding
Lx

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Oh, but it tastes so good! :wub:

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Well they almost all have their equivalents in "real custard"......and I thought someone was going to call me on not using corn starch.

Real custard only takes 10 mins to make, just warm the milk and then you have to temper the eggs and sugar, add the vanilla and gently heat until it thickens. It tastes better then Birds IMHO

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STOP IT! Have never found Birds Custard here in the Philippines and you lot have just made me drool over my T shirt!

Happy Christmas one and all on BE.:thumbup:

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http://annualreport2010.premierfoods...icepudding.jpg

Serving suggestion.

Open can
Use spoon

Serves one

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Birds v. Homemade custard - the evergreen BE argument.

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FIFY :)

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Well...it is important.
Crucially so.

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I suddenly glimpsed my own mortality.

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And if you don't have a spoon...
http://www.ebestfoods.co.uk/image/ca...58-500x500.jpg
:p

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:goodpost:

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'Devil pudding'!

Our local Kroger's around Houston are selling off various British products in their 'International' aisles...I recently got $2 Bisto gravy granules, $3 Heinz sponge pudding, 80 c Bounty bars, $3 Robinson's squash etc. Don't know if that means they are going to stop stocking British stuff?

Fiesta has a British section and some British style pasties and pies in the frozen International section; they usually have cakes Christmas puddings and British chocolate selection at Christmas but I haven't been yet, it'll all be 75 % off by Monday!

I can usually get anything I need from amazon too.

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Some of our local Krogers did that a couple of years back. The number of store selling British items is now greatly reduced. My local Kroger doesn't sell any brit stuff at all anymore

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Somebody asked about 'back bacon' on a thread...our local Fiesta ( which also has reduced the number of British products sold overall ) sells it in the freezer 'international' section, it's about $8 for half a pound, but a nice treat ( and the US streaky bacon rashers are way expensive much of the time too now, for what you get! )

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Based on the Brit section I found in a local Kroger-owned grocery, I'm not surprised as its offerings all looked like they had been gathering dust. I wouldn't be at all surprised at that store dropping its British groceries too. ..... I guess Amazon and other internet sales have taken much of that market too.

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I made custard today for a trifle. Introducing some of the merkins to it

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This is why we love you, and if you use a plastic spoon, no dishes :lol:

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Mrs P used to make trifle, with custard, no jelly :) for my office pot-luck Christmas lunches. (I changed departments and my new department doesn't do pot-lucks). I usually returned home with an empty bowl. :thumbsup: