Well, I'd grade that experiment as about a "C" . . .

[xiphias]

I've been making puddings. (By the American definition of "pudding", which I think, in Great Britain, would be called something like "Bird's". You know, a sort of creamy, sweet non-Newtonian fluid.)

Anyway, I've got a recipe I'm using as a base, which uses sugar, cornstarch, and salt as dry ingredients, to which are added cream, milk, and eggs. With chocolate for chocolate pudding, brown sugar instead of white sugar for butterscotch, and so forth.

Now, what I've been recently doing is figuring that the fat/liquid content of the cream and milk comes out to two cups of water and one-half cup of oil. So, I've been figuring, why not just use water and oil, and emulsify it with the eggs, then use THAT with the dry ingredients?

I've done two things so far, neither of which came out perfectly, but I think I'm getting the idea of it. The first one was olive oil and rosewater, which never got thick enough, because I decided to just use the egg whites instead of using the whole egg, so I think I was too light on the proteins. And tonight's was okay but not perfect. I used a mixture of roasted peanut oil and peanut butter, to make a peanut butter pudding.

Not bad, but the texture was off -- using peanut butter as part of one's oils is always involves a bit of guesswork for me; I've never QUITE figured out the proportions. But it was interesting, at least. And not horrible.

Comments

[undauntra.livejournal.com]

Isn't mayonnaise an emulsion of oil and eggs? So maybe you could start with mayo and just add water in slowly...

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Mayonnaise also has other spices and flavorings, making it mayonnaise-flavored. That strongly limits the directions I could go with it -- the mayonnaise flavoring only works with sweet flavors in VERY careful balancing. I've had things where it was done successfully, but it's not something I want to experiment with yet. Not until I get the other variables nailed down.