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Cornflour Blancmange

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Water
  3. 1 pint of milk
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. ozs.
  2. of cornflour.
  3. Bay -leaf, or any other flavouring 1 pint of milk.
  4. liked.
  5. Sugar to sweeten.
  6. Mix the cornflour in a basin with a little of the milk, put the remainder of the milk with a bay-leaf in a saucepan to boil, pour it on to the cornflour, stirring at the same time, turn it back into the saucepan and stir until it boils, let it cook very gently for six minutes, then take out the bay-leaf, add sugar to taste, and pour it into a mould that has been rinsed out with cold water.
  7. Let it stand until it is quite cold ;
  8. then turn it out on to a dish and serve with stewed fruit or preserve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
  • Spatula