Leona is making lemon pudding from "scratch." Her ingredients include fat-free milk, corn starch, lemon juice, egg yolks, salt, sugar, and butter. When she added some of the ingredients together, little clumps formed in the mixture before she could heat it. What happened to those ingredients?

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Tessa Swanson

25 May, 15:58

Leona is making lemon pudding from "scratch." Her ingredients include fat-free milk, corn starch, lemon juice, egg yolks, salt, sugar, and butter. When she added some of the ingredients together, little clumps formed in the mixture before she could heat it. What happened to those ingredients?

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Jeremy · Answer 1

The acid present in the lemon will react with the protein from the milk so it will clabben it forming this little clumps. It could be also the Corn Starch that will not dissolve correctly if add all in a go, due to the polarity.

Adeline Marquez · Answer 2

She added the ingredients in the wrong order, this will make the ingredients to mix in a different way and that can lead to different errors, formation of clumps is one of them.