In the meantime, here is my favorite haupia recipe. Haupia is a traditional Hawaiian coconut pudding. The consistency is more along the lines of gelatin rather than a traditional pudding. I've read that haupia is very similar to the European dessert blancmange. Give it a try - it's delicious AND uses simple ingredients AND is easy to make. How much better can a recipe possibly be? (Funny note: the ingredients remind me of the stuff I used to make another batch of Homemade Deodorant today!)
HAUPIA (Coconut Pudding)
By Cynthia Dyer-Bennet (peoples@well.com)Ingredients:
1 can (13.5 oz.) coconut milk
7 Tbs sugar
7 Tbs cornstarch
¾ cup water
Directions:
Pour coconut milk into saucepan. Combine sugar and cornstarch in a separate bowl; stir in water and blend well with a fork or whisk. Stir sugar mixture into coconut milk; then turn on heat. Cook and stir over low heat (with a wire whisk if you have one, or use a fork...) until thickened. Pour into 8-inch square pan and chill until firm. Cut into 2-inch squares.
Yield:
16 servings ("Ha, ha, depends on how much you eat," says Cynthia)
The trick to getting it thick enough to set is to cook it longer than you usually would with a custard-type pudding. When it thickens, don't stop cooking/stirring. It should be nearly the consistency of chilled Elmer's glue when you finally put it into the pan it's going to be chilled in. It will probably not smooth itself out in the pan since it'll be incredibly thick, so take a rubber scraper, dip it in water and use it to smooth the pudding evenly in the pan before chilling.
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