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Weather.... Published: Tuesday, 2/10/2009  Puddings and custards
showcase desserts  There's no word for pudding in the French
language, although there are plenty of pudding-like desserts
such as mousse, custard, creme brulee, creme anglaise, pastry
cream, and oufs a la neige (individual "snow eggs," sometimes
called floating islands).  Pudding may well come from the
British via Yorkshire pudding, a cross between a popover and a
souffle, according to the Food Lover's Companion.  Here in
America, we have chocolate pudding, rice pudding, and vanilla,
banana, lemon, or coconut pudding. When I grew up, most cooks
made these from scratch. My mother, being a "modern" cook,
always made them using a box mix.  Today's box mixes have
expanded from those cooked on the stove top to instant (simply
mixed, they set up when refrigerated) and countless shelf-stable
varieties, which in their individual containers are great for
lunch boxes or school lunches.  The contempora