This is another of those days where I'm indebted to Recipezaar.com. We needed some sweetened condensed milk and didn't want to go to the store since it's Sunday. Cooking is an acceptable Sabbath activity in our home but not going to the store. We shop during the week or go on Saturday to avoid shopping on Sunday. See this great article by Elder Earl C. Tingey at LDS.Org from the May 1996 Ensign for more about shopping on the Sabbath.
So we turned to the World Wide Web and one of my favorite cooking sites, Recipezaar.
There they have a multitude of recipes with pictures and ratings and suggestions. We quickly found a promising recipe comprised of nonfat dry milk, sugar, water, butter and vanilla. Moments later Jessica had a finished batch that's the equivalent of a 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk. Click on this sentence for a link to the recipe (or look for the recipe with copycat sweetened condensed milk in the title.)
So we've discovered yet another use for powdered milk since the recipe turned out delicious if just a slight bit grainy in comparison to the canned sweetened condensed milk.
Just out of curiosity, how many of us were raised in families that made caramel from sweetened condensed milk by completely immersing the can in water and boiling it for hours?
(They don't recommend this anymore as the cans can explode if not complete immersed the entire time and molten caramel can cause severe burns.)
1 comment:
I actually blew up a can that I was trying to convert to "dulce de leche" once. My brother had some emergency car problem and I left it on the stove. My mom and my sister spent over an hour cleaning up the mess in the kitchen. If you look in the Mexican/Latino section in the grocery story you can sometime find the Nestle "dulce de leche" which is practically the same thing.
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