With a greenhouse you could grow the "Custard Apple" Annona Reticulata.

Brian G

I grow two varieties of Rhubarb and have a prolific cultivated Blackberry that produces huge fruits so am in constant need of custard.

Bird's 'ready to mix' in packets – just add hot water and stir – is our preferred choice. Quick, easy, just the right amount of sweetness and goes with the above a treat – bugger trying to grow your own

Best – Tug

Edited By Ramon Wilson on 13/08/2023 15:55:39

Added sugar! I have an oven dish 12 x 8.5 x 2.5" deep, with a fruit crumble in it, to dip into each day. Supermarket cooking apples, skinned chopped and cooked then when nearly cooked, blackberries picked by me from hedgerows chucked in on top to cook, taking only a few minutes.No sugar at all. Turned out of saucepan into oven dish covered in a commercial crumble mix. Sainsburys own brand is very powdery and tastes like there too much sugar added for my liking. Sugar not listed in the ingredients. Aunt Bessie's version lists sugar, demerara sugar, Cane Molasses but I can't detect any of that by taste, so could be only minimal. Point is, at no stage do I add sugar and find it OK. But then I can eat grapefruit or lemon with no sugar, or any other sweetener. Dont do artificial sweeteners. Not tried it yet but plan to make my own crumble mix, so I know exactly what's in it and what's not, like palm oil which I struggle to avoid because its shoved in everything. I always cook blackberries to sterilise them after sat on by flies, no telling what else they've sat on!

John

Edited By DMB on 13/08/2023 16:04:13

since, as I’m sure you know, proper custard is made by slowly cooking whisked egg yolks and sugar with whole warmed milk until it thickens (4 egg yolks, 3-4 oz sugar + 1/2 pt of full cream milk – thus for self sufficiency you need to purchase a cow, some laying hens and unless you are in the tropics grow sugar beet – though personally I would make a trip to the local supermarket for the raw ingredients.

I think maybe someone has missed the point in Lee's post where he differentiates between upper and lower case B

Bill

Don't want to start a row, but Card Carrying Vegetarians aren't allowed custard of any type. Custard has egg in it.

Only poachers turned gamekeeper claim eggs aren't really flesh. In my opinion all those who have betrayed the movement should be boiled, fried and scrambled. It will teach them to take a yolk.

Dave

I believe only in the forest surrounding Montallegro, on Caissa Inferiore, in the San Serriffe archipellago.

Bill

Looks like the Ambrosia factory is suitably situated in the Yorkshire "rhubarb triangle"

Ed

Well if that were true, the Ambrosia people made a mistake building their factory in Devon (I think), as it's well known that God lives in Yorkshire.

Sod it, I'll just toddle down the road to Sainsburys for a tub of Birds. Walk good for me and if there's any 'nasties' in it, little harm done as I don't make custard very often – hate cleaning saucepan, damn milk.

Lazy John

Thanks for brightening up my morning …

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