| | Today i tried an experiment that i've been contemplating for some time: Making my own condensed milk. And no, i don't mean the one with dry milk powder, water, sugar, and butter-- of all things! No-- real condensed milk.
Why? Well, the obvious answer is, why not? If i can, i want to try. Given that the only ingredients on any can of condensed milk are MILK and SUGAR-- what exactly is the difficulty here? Besides that reason, there is a possibly cost efficiency, the ability to make it with soy or rice milks or some other alternative, the convenience of having a substitute available (i don't always have condensed milk when i want it, but i always have milk and sugar)... And with all those good reasons, this brings us back to the first: Why not?
Well, the first difficulty is in finding out the proper ratio of milk to sugar. i've found recipes that say 3:1, 1:1, 1:1.25, 1:.75... so i randomly picked one. The first one, of course, because sugar (at least the organic variety) ain't cheap. So i put the two together and simmered them (stirring, so as to prevent any scalding) for about 45 minutes, until it was reduced by one half.
Result? It smells and tastes like condensed milk. But it's thin. i did use 1%... but still. It's thin. Will this stuff still work in coffee? We'll find out, right after these messages.
Vita-Mix, KitchenAid, Maytag, GE.
(White noise strikes again.)
Not too bad. Hmm... |
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