Little Women: Blanc Mange
Little Women: Recipe #3
On a fine winter’s day, Jo finally gets up the courage to throw a snowball at Laurie’s window to get his attention. When he opens the window, they make plans for Jo to visit and keep Laurie company while he is stricken with a cold. Before Jo visits, she gathers goodies from her mother and sisters to bring the poor sick boy - one of which is a Blanc Mange made by Meg and decorated with flowers by Beth. Jo tells Laurie it’s the perfect food for a sore throat as it’ll “slip down” easily. Blanc Mange is usually prepared in a fancy pudding mold, but as I have none, I used cups, and decorated with berries for as fancy an effect as I could muster :)
This is a very simple vanilla pudding made with oat milk (almond milk would also do nicely) that is at once comforting and, at least for me, nostalgic for the Jell-O pudding cups of my youth.
Ingredients:
2 cups oat milk (I used Oatly full-fat for the creamiest possible effect)
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
5 Tbsp corn starch
3 Tbsp cold water
Instructions:
Mix corn starch with water until a homogeneous paste and set aside.
Heat oat milk in medium saucepan over medium-high heat, and whisk in sugar. Cook until milk begins to steam.
Add vanilla and stir, reducing heat to medium.
Slowly whisk in corn starch-water mixture and cook until milk is thickened.
Pour equally into cups and cover with plastic wrap or cloth.
Chill in refrigerator until cooled and set.
Serve with berries and/or granola topping.
Enjoy!
