Drinking Custard: The Diary of a Confused Mum

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Get ready to make room on mum's bookshelf for Drinking Custard to sit alongside other mum classics such as Why Mummy Drinks, Hurrah For Gin! and The Unmumsy Mum. As well as honest it is happy, sad, thoughtful, irreverent, moving,basically every emotion you can think of rolled into one joyous read In a medium saucepan over medium heat, bring the milk to a simmer. Whisk together the eggs, sugar and salt in a medium bowl. Slowly whisk the hot milk into the egg mixture.

From TV's award-winning comedy mum and the writer of Hullraisers, Lucy Beaumont, comes her hilarious debut on the trials and tribulations of motherhood. This read like a daily list of what happened, with frequent reminders of how tired she was which may have impacted her memory as she also mentions her famous husband, a lot. Large mixing bowl – you’ll need a large mixing bowl to cool your creamy dessert, before starting the second stage of the heating process.Cover and refrigerate until cold. If desired, just before serving, whip the egg whites separately with a pinch of cream of tartar, until fluffy. Whisk into the cooled custard before pouring into individual mugs. This step can be omitted if desired. Boiled custard can be used as a beverage, with or without a splash of bourbon or rum, and is also excellent over fresh or canned fruit, or when used as a dessert sauce over cake. Should keep about a week in the fridge. If you have ever made homemade ice cream with a cooked egg yolk base, then you have technically already made boiled custard. You just skip the step where you add the custard to the churner and instead you pour it, chilled, right into a glass and drink it up. Custard powder contains calcium essential for maintaining strong bones and teeth and helping prevent osteoporosis. Just one serving of custard powder provides about 30% of the daily recommended amount of calcium needed by adults. Custard powder contains phosphorus, which is a nutrient involved in multiple roles in the body. It is a key mineral of bones, teeth, and cell membranes. Hence, it is crucial for your baby’s development.

Heart-warming and laugh-out-loud funny, Drinking Custard also captures Lucy’s marriage to comedian Jon Richardson, as they navigate Lucy’s raging pregnancy hormones and balk at pram prices together. Reading this book, I think Lucy Beaumont is the mum I would love to have bumped into at mum and baby groups. She talks candidly here about the ups and downs of being a new mum, not least the pressures we often pile upon ourselves. Vanilla paste or vanilla extract – when it comes to vanilla, you can never have enough. Get yourself a big batch of paste or extract – you’ll most likely use it in every dessert recipe! It’s recommended that you get the custard to between 160°F and 180°F. Get yourself a food thermometer and you’ll never end up with it curdled or split. They proceeded to ladle out cupfuls of hot drinking custard for each of us. We were surprised but grateful!This was my first ever audiobook and it was an easy one to start with! Before starting this I didn't know anything about Lucy Beaumont or Jon Richardson so I went into it totally blind.