Coquet Pudding

Luckily the riots have ceased in London for the time being, but this week has been a strange week and today quite an odd day. I took the day off after working excessively over the previous two weeks and so far have been questioned by the police regarding ‘a disturbance’ at another flat, been asked if I wanted a ‘stolen’ plasma T.V and rescued a check out worker who was being abused by a customer. I called the police regarding the Plasma screen incident and as an officious bystander took down their number plate and reported them. In the back of my mind, this was probably stolen from an innocent shop owner on Sunday/Monday night during the riots and if my little but of civic duty results in prosecution I will be elated. Rescuing the supermarket worker from verbal abuse also secured £3 off of my shopping bill so I feel I have triumphed twice already today.

With a bit of spare time, I decided to get dinner done early and prepared for this evening. For dessert I have made Coquet Pudding. This is mashed potatoes, cooked with powdered egg, sugar, milk and jam.

I could not imagine in anyway how this would look, taste or smell. Potatoes in a dessert are beyond anything I would ever contemplate. I cooked and mashed the poatoes with butter using a potato ricer. I thought any kind of lumps in this would really make it feel like potatoes and lumps in mashed potatoes can never be forgiven. I mixed in sugar, two reconstituted eggs and milk. I did not follow an exact recipe for this one, as I find converting imperial to metric measurements all the time slightly annoying. I also only had one large baking potato so pretty much threw in what I thought was best.

Despite low expectations, this is really quite nice. It has quite a granular consistency, and reminds me almost of a thick semolina pudding. Yet, you cannot taste the powdered egg which is a massive bonus for me and I would quite happily eat it again.