General Chat

Somebody with two pet pigs that she has rescued has taken a case for them.

I tried a place locally for the mentally handicapped(or whatever you have to say).They cook things for sale but cannot make fudge as it would be too hot for the patients(or whatever you have to say) to do and there is no recipe that uses it. Good old Health and Safety I say!

As it is coming up to Harvest Festival time, donate to local churches. As it is still in date I can't see a problem. I notice you are talking cartons, so not in tins then?

Rosalind

Mix it with equal quantity of water and use as full cream milk.

I had some unsalted butter in the fridge,date marked for last November. It made a decent bit of pastry this weekend.

I have put in a previous thread about using festering yoghurt for soda bread.I tried topping it up with undiluted evaporated milk this week and it took twice as long to cook.

I made a rice pudding with diluted evaporated.There was some left over in the jug so the other half put it in the fridge. Well,we wouldn't want to run out of diluted evaporated now would we? There are only about two hundred cartons left!

Three Is in a row,the conceit of the woman,sorry about that.

Like you say, Mau, I don't throw things out until I can see/smell they're on the turn. But I should think as we're such a litigation driven culture these days that companies have to be careful, which I should imagine is why the tins have to be destroyed.

Apparently one of the causes of food poisoning in students is putting opened tins (still in the tin) of food in the fridge and later coming back to it a couple of days later. Big cause of botulism.

It is an absolute disgrace to waste this good food,surely there are lots of places where it could be distributed.
It makes you wonder exactly how much food ie bread, vege. etc. is wasted by supermarkets,that could make a differnce in some folks lives.

We have been brainwashed into actually believing in the sell by and use by dates on products. Okay no-one would buy fish or meat if it didn't look fresh but.common sense should prevail! if we shop for food in markets we can see for ourselves,not just read a date on a label. Protecton gone mad!

I didn't have a fridge till the early 1960s (and mother never) so how did we manage?? we were never! poisoned.
If folk are feeling the credit crunch they need to ask themselves if they really should be throwing 'stuff' away when it's out of date.......and I speak as one who worked with food and was paranoid about using
anything past it's use/sell by.

I couldn't really think what an animal charity could do with it. It is not really mine to dispose of in that way. I am supposed to destroy it.

The only way it might be professional for me to use it for charitable purposes might be to make fudge or something with it that the charity could sell so that it was not connected to the product in any way.

NO please dont' give it to an animal charity. It is far to rich for animals. They need specially prepared milks or their stomachs can't take it.

You could raffle it on here and raise some funds for the air ambulance or some other charity...

Like Eileen and Cyntha have said, it was used alot for babies in the 50's and 60's. I shpuld know. I was one of them little one's. I was 6 weeks prem, weighing 4lbs 7ozs and Mum couldn't feed me herself, so at the hospital they made up a mix of Carnation Evap milk and water for me to be fed with. It didn't do me any harm and I soon was a bouncing, chubby baby. In fact I'm still chubby now. LOL

Mix with egg, pumpkin and lots of spices and put in pastry case and you have a wonderful pumpkin pie!

But I think the best suggestion is giving it to an animal charity. I´m sure it would be welcomed.

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.!

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!

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.

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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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!

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

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

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

the tree!! lol ;O)

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.

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