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As part of a merchandising job we were required to uplift old stock of evaporated milk from supermarkets.There is nothing wrong with it,it is in date but I think the packaging has been superceded.

It would be unprofessional to pass it on to others and we are asked to destroy it, which I think is pretty wicked.

It did occur to me that I would try to destroy as much as possible through our ailimentary canals.

We actually have twenty dozen cartons to destroy.

Please tell me as many recipes using evaporated milk as you can.

YOU COULD MAKE

GALLONS OF TOFFEE SAUSE

IF ANY LEFT DONATE IT TO

A ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER

What an example of a terrible wasteful world we live in.. thank goodness you decided to use them...
My contribution...... Milk jelly.

make up jelly using half pint of water allow to cool(but not set), add 1/4 pint amount of vappy milk whisk until all frothy allow to set, you end up with a kind of blancmange bottom and set frothy top..xx

It makes lovely creamy rice pudding.

Yes and there's evaporated milk with evaporated milk and evaporated milk on the side.

Google search using words... Recipes using evaporated milk...

....then take your choice.

Gwyn

http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/bldairy5.htm

That's just one site I found on Google putting in evaporated milk+recipe

Sue

OK, there's strawberry Mousse.

1 pack of strawberry jelly, made up but not set, and cooled.

I tin of evap. Best kept in the fridge overnight/

I tin of strawberries. (use the juice as part of the fluid for the jelly to add flavour)

In a large bowl, preferably with a cover, use an electric whisk to whip the milk up into a froth until it starts to thicken and doubles in size. While still whipping, slowly add the jelly. Pour into a large serving bowl or individual dishes and leave in the fridge to set. Decorate with the strawberries. Can be done with rasperries too, but watch the pips don't get in the milk mixture, they sink to the bottom LOL

Second...Home made Baileys.

Whiskey
Coffee (one tbs instant mixed with a little water)
tin of evap.
tin of condensed milk
Glycerine (from the chemist) a few drops.

Lightly whisk the two milks together. add the coffee and glycerin. add whiskey to taste, mix well..bottle and enjoy.

Mmmm Fudge

900g (2lb) Sugar
225g (8oz) Unsalted Butter
1 large tin Evaporated Milk
Water (quarter of the volume of Evaporated Milk)
Vanilla Essence

Place the sugar, butter, milk, water and vanilla essence into a saucepan.
Heat gently until it is fully dissolved.
Rapidly boil the mixture to a temperature of 114 - 118°C (238 - 245°F) the soft ball stage.

Remove from the heat and allow to cool for 2 - 3 minutes, then beat rapidly with a wooden spoon until the mixture thickens and becomes rough in texture.
Pour the mixture into a 20cm (8 inch) baking tin, lined with silicone paper.

Allow to cool a little before marking into squares with a knife.

Leave in a cool place to set, cut into squares and store in an airtight container.

My Dad used to make bottles of homemade Bailey's
Cream TW for presents at Christmas :O)

Looks like Sharron is going to have a good Christmas with all these goodies then LOL

Probably totally frowned upon today, but Carnation Milk used to have quantites on it for bottle feeding babies - both my now 39 and 40 year old boys went on to it partially as a supplement to breast milk, then completely on to it. You had to put a hole each side of the tin top otherwise it wouldn't come out. There was a little depression in the tin to show you where to put the holes.

The boys were, and are, fine and weren't overweight either. If I remember rightly it was two fluid ounces of Carnation and six fluid ounces boiled and cooled to warm water, making a just under half pint bottle full when they were taking a full bottle.
It was also very useful when camping as you could not keep, or even get, fresh milk often. I would have one thermos of boiling water, and one of pre-boiled cold water so I could mix it quickly for a hungry baby. I knew exactly how many ounces of each to end up with a bottle the right temperature for instant feeding.
Bottles were sterilised by boiling in a big pan on the primus stove, and nappies boiled in a different pan, and hung on the guy ropes to blow in the wind and soften with the rain. They sometimes took a while to dry, but were lovely to feel and smell.
Happy days.

....always wise to find a good comfortable seat under

the tree!! lol ;O)

In the absence of asses milk, like Cleopatra you could also bathe in it !! LOL

My son's Nanna and many people I know in Malta use evaporated milk instead of fresh milk for their cups of tea etc.

I do like evap milk, on fruit etc it is preferable to cream sometimes.

Lizx

Sterilized milk Eileen,couldn't come to any harm. We drank lots of it (diluted too) and condensed.

As bairns we weren't fat but we were fit and healthy!

Evaporated milk makes a great Bread and Butter Pudding:-

Bread and Butter Pudding

Approx 8 - 10 slices of bread, buttered and cut into triangular quarters.

1 large can of evaporated milk, topped up to a pint with ordinary milk

2 eggs
2 handsful of sultanas
2 level tablespoons of sugar

Enough fresh breadcrumbs and brown sugar to cover the top.

Butter a souffle dish and in it layer buttered bread, sultanas and sugar,until all is used up.

Beat together the milk(s) and eggs and pour over the bread etc.

Press down with back of a wooden spoon, cover and leave for an hour.

Sprinkle over a mixture of breadcrumbs and brown sugar, cover loosely with foil and bake slowly for 1 hour. Remove foil and continue baking for another half an hour.

Serve hot...it will come out of the oven well risen, like a souffle, but will sink down.

Dee
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Is this milk in cartons and not tins?
Tins will keep long after their sell by date.
We used tins during and after the war that had been hoarded for ages.
Of course then we didn't have sell by dates and I don't think anyone of us were poisoned!
I would imagine you could use evap to make cakes and scones,even if you had to dilute it a little,and I go along with the creamiest rice pudding.My m.i.l had a big guest house and made it an alternative pudding every day with evap and it was so popular.
Glad to see that you don't like waste,as so many people these days can be wasteful,but oldies like me cannot bear waste.

I don't think I will have a baby to drink it.It will be out of it's sell-by date by then.

Now,if I used it in the bath like asses milk,with the amount it would take to cover me with my displacement,there would still be nineteen and three quarters dozen left.

I did make that Bailey's imitation once,using,as I recall,something called Norrey's.

We have three bottles of Bailey's in the cupboard already so I don't think I will make any more.

Thanks for all the recipes you have posted.Keep 'em coming!

My children were brought up on evap too! 38 and 34 now. Hearing about the procedures of how babies bottles have to be made these days, (never mind the cost) makes me wonder how mine survived!
It's quite good in coffee too. What a wicked waste when there are starving people in this world.!