Custard: Hot or Cold?

[TwentyThree]

How should it really be served?

I prefer to have contrast in my desserts; if the custard accompanies a hot dish it needs to be cold and vice versa.

What do you reckon?

 

[fractionMan]

nah. hot wiv hot stuff, cold wiv cold

and mint flavoured with chocolate cake.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

wot he said

I bet you like hot apple pie with ice-cream too.
vile

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Neither. I loathe custard.

 

[WouldBe]

I prefer to have contrast in my desserts; if the custard accompanies a hot dish it needs to be cold and vice versa.

Hot custard doesn't work well in a trifle.



Either way but it must be thick and preferebly with a skin on it.

 

[quimcunx]

thick, thin, hot, cold. It's all win.

 

[perplexis]

COLD custard? WTF? That sounds revolting.
Creme Anglaise, now there's your proper milk, egg, vanilla & sugar cream-desert, that's just about ok cold.
But proper thick custard BLEHBLEHBLEH

 

[WouldBe]

But proper thick custard BLEHBLEHBLEH

Yummmmmmmm.

I don't want yellow milk on my pudding.

 

[perplexis]

Yummmmmmmm.

I don't want yellow milk on my pudding.

Shit. What am I gonna do with all this milk I've just dyed?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Sometimes cold custard straight out of a tin is lush.

Sometimes heated gently with some cocoa powder is lush.

Sometimes the dead posh stuff with vanilla seeds in it is lush. Warmed.

Hot custard is never lush. It may be cold, or it may be warmed. It may never be hot.

 

[Felina]

Every which way!

 

[Mrs Miggins]

...suddenly, I have a strange craving for blancmange....

 

[selamlar]

Cold custard FTW

 

[pogofish]

Hot custard doesn't work well in a trifle.

Custard should never be anywhere near a trifle IMO.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I need some custard. NOW!

 

[WouldBe]

Custard should never be anywhere near a trifle IMO.

It's not a trifle without custard.

 

[pogofish]

Its not one with. Custard is merely there so you can skimp on the alcohol-soaked cake, fruit & cream.

 

[ScallyWag II]

Neither. I loathe custard.

Only sensible answer so far. Vile stuff imo, urgh

 

[Melinda]

*voms*

Claggy custard skin

*retches again*

 

[CharlieAddict]

hot custard and rhubarb crumble wins everytime.

anyone ever put ketchup into their custard?

 

[WouldBe]

anyone ever put ketchup into their custard?

Whats that? A savory trifle?

 

[Geri]

I love custard, cold or hot.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

i love freshly made, hot custard, that radioactive gloop they sell in the shops is awful.
cold custard? does not compute

 

[rennie]

Neither. I loathe custard.

me too.

 

[quimcunx]

Neither. I loathe custard.

Only sensible answer so far. Vile stuff imo, urgh

me too.

This is a custard thread, for custard people!


*kills and dismembers Mrs M, Scally and rennie*

 

[Chz]

Hot custard should be thinner and used as a topping.

Cold custard should be thick and is perfect all on its own. If it's not cold, you don't get the best part - the skin!

 

[Thimble Queen]

both...

on dessert i like it hot.

by itself i like it cold and hot

 

[DotCommunist]

Either or. Hot with cake, cold with trifle. Standards

 

[panpete]

Ambrosia tinned cold custard on hot food, as the custard stays a nice jelly like consistency.
Hot custard on cold food if I can be arsed heating it.

 

[panpete]

Tinned custard with a spoon of coco well mixed in - yummmmmmm