Some of Kraft's most popular brands have included Kraft cheese, Milka and Toblerone chocolates, Philadelphia cream cheese, Planters nuts, Jell-O desserts, Kool-Aid powdered beverages, Jacobs and Maxwell House coffees, Lu biscuits, Nabisco cookies and crackers, Oscar Mayer meats, and Cadbury Creme Egg and Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolates.
If I were English, I could call the wiggly desserts I make with this powder "jelly," but in my country, jelly goes on toast.
The dessert inside "had totally disintegrated to just powder," Ms. Carroll said.
It's like the dusting of cocoa powder seen on so many dessert plates, but it lets a diner savor the flavor as much as the effect.
Mr. Wait's genius was to democratize the dessert by turning the gelatin into flavored powder so that it could be reconstituted quickly and for just a few cents a serving.
An experimental mixture design was used to study the influence of varying concentrations of carrageenan, milk powder and starch on the dessert properties, while the sucrose and water content was kept constant.
He feeds them dog food and powdered-sugar donuts — and, as dessert, hard candy dispensed directly from his own lips.
And then there's dessert: soldiers feed on "Hershey bars and powdered lemonade," and make forays into Paris, where "sex was cheaper than chocolate".
Odd lots of rationed meat were being dutifully roasted no matter how tough they were; cabbages were boiled to exhaustion; everything else, from soup to dessert, seemed to come from tins and powders.
The more exotic desserts include chocolate cake sprinkled with ancho chili powder and a pineapple upside-down cake studded with almonds and bits of mango.
