Last night I decided to make Lemon Delicious pudding for my Pete. I had bought the ingredients and mentally commited myself to making it when I re-read the recipe. It called for melted butter. At this moment I remembered that our microwave is being repaired.
For the first time in my married life I had to do this.
It felt like the olden days…
Peppermint Patcher 
I hope you continued the olden days theme and made the pudding without any newfangled machinery at all …
I don’t have the whisking muscles that would require.
You young people!
I very rarely use my microwave – in fact, the only reason I have one is that it came built into the kitchen cabinets.
You baby boomers! (I needed something opposite to “young people”, but I didn’t think you’d appreciate OLD people…)
HMMMM…old school butter!
It was actually canola margarine. Butter is too buttery for my likes.
Was it worth the effort?
Oh yes! Lemon delicious pudding was delicious indeed!
I would have just done it in a small saucepan, I must be super old-fashioned.
I was boiling the water in the frypan already because I put the wire rack into it when I want to steam vegetables. And I wanted to steam vegetables. In this way I was being economical in my use of saucepans and saving washing up.
lOL! I banished the microwave to the basement in the renovation! I’m a full-time cooktop user now!
Hmmm. I think the microwave uses a little less electricity so I feel like I am doing the world a service.
I agree with Stomper. Maybe we went to the same School of Culinary Arts? I would definitely have used a saucepan.
(I’d probably also have forgotten about it, let it overheat and burnt the butter…but that’s a whole other story.)
See reply above.
I stood by and watched it melt. It was oddly satisfying to see it become liquid.
Me three on the saucepan! Maybe it’s a southern states thing? 🙂
You southerners need to think outside the square!
Me four on the saucepan but probably so I only had to wash one dish!
See reply above – I did only have one saucepan to make my Pete wash…
I am in the saucepan club too. Old habits are hard to break!
This is an innovation on a double boiler.
oh clever you! good for you for still making it even though the microwave was out of commission. I probably would have switched recipes at that point! LOL.
but I REALLY wanted lemon pudding by then…
I know what that’s like. My oven is currently not working. It only cooks on broil. Therefore, cooking cakes or anything that needs to browned on the bottom is a challenge. Because of this, I have new ways of cooking these types of things.
http://www.busy-moms-tips-blog.com