Recipe for a white dessert sauce. Or does anyone know where I can buy some ?

Question

Many many years ago, for dessert at school lunchtime, we used to get chocolate pudding with either white sauce or a minty flavoured one. For quite a while I have been trying to find some( or make some). I can get brandy flavoured around Christmas time, but don't want this. I know you can get white sauce for Lasagna and fish, savoury of course. PLEASE could you help me out on this one.. Many thanks ...

Answer 1

AMBROSIA DO A WHITE SWEET SAUCE, IT IS VERY EASY TO MAKE THOUGH.
1 OZ CORNFLOUR
2 OZ SUGAR
2 TEASPOONS VANILLA ESSENCE
1 PINT OF MILK
JUST BLEND THE CORNFLOUR WITH A LITTLE COLD MILK, THEN ADD SUGAR AND ESSENCE, BOIL THE REST OF THE MILK,THEN ADD IT TOO THE CORNFLOUR PASTE, MAKE SURE YOU KEEP STIRRING OTHERWISE IT WILL GO ALL LUMPY, THEN PUT IT BACK ON THE HEAT AND SIMMER FOR A ABOUT 5MINS, YOU CAN MAKE CHOCOLATE SAUCE THE SAME WAY JUST ADD COCOA TO THE CORNFLOUR.

Answer 2

Sweet White Sauce

Answer 3

CREME ANGLAISE

1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 2-inch piece vanilla bean, split
3 large egg yolks
3 tablespoons sugar

Combine milk and cream in heavy medium saucepan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla bean; add bean. Bring milk mixture to simmer. Remove from heat.
Whisk egg yolks and sugar in medium bowl to blend. Gradually whisk hot milk mixture into yolk mixture. Return custard to saucepan. Stir over low heat until custard thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, about 5 minutes (do not boil). Strain sauce into bowl. Cover and chill. (Can be made 1 day ahead.)

Makes 1 cup.


Creme anglaise is a very traditional white dessert sauce. It is very common to mix it with a little bourbon and use it to top bread pudding. Its a very mild vanilla sauce, and almost any other flavoring could be added. If you wanted to make it minty, leave out the vanilla bean and add white creme de menthe or mint extract.

Answer 4

Strawberries can mean only one thing ... ETON MESS Serves 2 INGREDIENTS 450g of fresh strawberries 1 tablespoon of sugar 250g of meringue 250ml of cream METHOD Wash the strawberries, remove any stalks and chop them into quarters. Break or chop the meringue into rough 2cm (1 inch) pieces. Put the strawberries in a bowl. Sprinkle over the sugar. Mix together. Pour the cream into another bowl. Lightly whip the cream. Don’t over-do it: it should still be pourable. Add the strawberries to the cream, or vice versa. Add the meringue pieces. Mix together and serve. ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES Use ready-made meringue, especially if it’s broken and/or reduced in price. If you make your own meringue, this is the dish to practice with. If they weep, crack or even collapse, you can still use them in this. However, you do have to make it a day in advance. For the romantic version, top with a large strawberry and offer this to your partner. An authentic Eton mess uses strawberries, but other summer fruits work well. However, even Heston Blumenthal has had to concede that Eton mess is “quite simply impossible to improve upon”. HISTORICAL NOTES Eton mess originated at Eton College in the 1930’s, when a mixture of either strawberries or bananas with cream or ice cream, all stirred together (hence the name "mess"), was served in the school’s “sock shop” (tuck shop). One anecdotal story is that the dessert was ‘invented’ by a Labrador dog, when it sat on a picnic basket in the back of a car. With the later addition of the meringue, it has evolved into the unashamedly wicked, yet still quintessentially English, summer dessert. It is traditionally served at Eton College's annual prize-giving celebration picnic on what is still called the "Fourth of June”, despite actually taking place on the last Wednesday in May.

Answer 5

Most holiday puddings (are you talking about the steamed, cake-like types?) are served with hard sauce, which is the same as vanilla frosting, made with confectioners sugar and butter and vanilla.

I am sorry, but I can't say that I have ever made a white sauce for an american style pudding (custard).

Answer 6

Boil some milk, add sugar to taste and thicken with a little cornflour which has been mixed with a little milk to make a paste. this is a basic sweet white sauce, you can then add any other flavourings and food colourings eg: mint essence, rum, brandy, orange essence

Answer 7

Bring 1/2 cup cream to simmer in heavy medium saucepan. Remove saucepan from heat. Add 8 ounces white chocolate and stir until melted and smooth.

Answer 8

I'll just bet that sauce was a powdered mix, esp. if you went to school in England. You can make it yourself, using the Creme Anglaise someone suggested.

Or, you can buy Bird's Custard Powder. If you can't find it at your local supermarket, it's available from Amazon, and elsewhere, on the web.

Answer 9

The basic Pastry white sauce is a vanilla sauce, you can look up the recipe on foodtv.com, or the easiest way to make a sauce is melt your favorite icecream flavor..