Wet Custard

[ProgiSmith]

Get a cooking bowl, you will use for baking and ...

4 cups of milk
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar

Mix that togeather in the bowl, not to much - adds some consitancy if you dont mix to much..

Then sprinkle some ground cinnamon over the top of it - i mix a little into it then add more.

Cook it for an hour at 350 degrees. Place in fridge, serve cold.

Its sloppy, sorta like pudding.. but really good and super easy to make.

[Miruwin]

Nice additions to this is nutmeg instead of cinnamon and use some vanilla essence. Also you can cut the crusts off a few slices of bread, butter them very lightly, spread something like a berry jam (raspberry or strawberry), cut the bread slices into quarters and put on top of the custard prior to baking. A handful of sultanas can also be added (this is known as spotted dick)

[Thoraf]

There's no way I"m eating something like spotted dick. Where's Mic?

Ohh and thanks for droping in and supplying a recipe mate.

[Borneheld]

sultanans omg, there so evil in their little compact sultana like body, cant stand em

[Miruwin]

Or you can grill a couple of ripe bananas and serve in a bowl with a dash of cinnamon and sugar topped with the baked custard. For a really exotic dish, sprinkle a little shredded coconut and a dash or rum and top with a good quality double cream like King Island.

To bake bananas simply turn the grill on and place the unpeeled bananas on the grill plate - you can either do this with a normal stove grill or on a barbecue or hot plate. When the banana skins have turned dark brown to black, remove from heat. The skin will have probably split by now and you can remove the grilled banana whole with an egg slide or a couple of forks or something. Caution, they will be very hot.

As well as being an excellent desert, grilled bananas go brilliantly with grilled or barbecued steak. (Note: I prefer to use very ripe bananas)

On the subject of ripe bananas. It seems to me that since I've lived in the city, the only time I can get ripe bananas is to check out the greengrocer for bananas he is about to throw away. He will normally have a box with ripe fruit in it. I used to be able to buy a dozen ripe bananas at a time for around quarter the price of normal bananas.

Ripe bananas are perfect for grilling and for banana cake or bread and don't need additional sugar to sweeten them up. You can actually taste when a banana is green, it tastes -green- and slightly starchy. Also if you are serving bananas fresh in a fruit salad, or whatever, remember to use a little lemon or lime juice on them to prevent them from discolouring.

Now for those of you who don't know;

bananas with green skins - green (unripe)
bananas with yellow skins - green (unripe)
bananas with a few dark spots - almost ripe
bananas with mostly dark skins - perfect (ripe)
bananas with very dark ends - still perfect (a fraction overipe)

[Thoraf]

WHen banana's have lost a firm texture and gone to mush they are not edible (I eat banana's fresh) So silghtly black spotty is as ripe as they get before being chucked (out not up).

[Miruwin]

Actually when they are borderline mushy is when they are perfect.

[Thoraf]

I say Nay Nay !

[Miruwin]

No fkn taste! Typical Dorf!

[Mynxi]

Not partial to the overly ripe bananas myself. Might have something to do with people I know getting sick after eating a banana cake made from overly ripe bananas. ;)

Once bananas get soft I usually put them in the blender with some icecream and chocolate. yum! :)

[Micahle]

There's no way I"m eating something like spotted dick. Where's Mic?

Ewww spots can't be healthy.

[Kysumu]

I reckon even John Pinette would eat this shit

John’s first comedy CD, Show Me The Buffet, was an enormous. A follow-up CD/DVD, I Say ‘Nay Nay’, is due out in the Spring of 2004.

$$$

[Micahle]

Who?

[Kysumu]

Die Hippie

[Micahle]

You just want to see me naked...

[Kysumu]

Only if I am carrying a meat cleaver ...

[Micahle]

Where's the love?