On 20/09/2011 2:31 PM, Christopher M. wrote:
> I bought some chocolate pudding at the supermarket today. It tasted pretty
> good.
>
> But then I mixed some sugar with some cocoa, and then mixed them into the
> pudding together. (Sugar helps the cocoa to mix easier). It tasted *so* much
> better.
>
> It got me thinking that these pudding companies probably put the minimum
> amount of sugar and cocoa in their pudding that they need to be competitive.
>
>
I always found the chocolate in pudding mixes to be pretty bad. Pudding
is pretty easy and you don't save much work by making vanilla,
butterscotch or chocolate pudding. The basics of making a pudding are
pretty simple. Blend sugar and corn starch, add milk and egg, bring to a
boil, stir for a minute, add some butter and stir it in. It is pretty
much the same as making it from a mix, except you aren't paying a lot of
money for a small amount of corn starch and sugar. The flavourings you
add yourself are bound to be better than the artificial commercial flavours.