If someone put 'ideal milk' on a shopping list what would you buy

[StealthPolarBear]

Help!

Evaporated milk.

Easy! It's Carnation tinned milk.

Evaporated google tells me. It’s a brand.

Ideal milk was/is a brand name for it.

I said evaporated milk though and she said "no it's just milk in a tin"

Not condensed milk then?

It's evaporated milk and a specific brand. It's not condensed milk

Argh thanks. I might buy both, given she specifically said no to evaporated

I'm sure my mum used to buy this for steamed puddings?

Are you sure she knows what she wants herself? Because "milk in a tin" comes as evaporated or condensed.... does she know that?

I have no idea. Think I'll go with evap

evaporated milk, but I do get confused between the two and would need to check.

What's the difference? Evaporated and condensed?

I think condensed is sweetened. And given she said milk in a tin unsweetened would seem best. Thanks everyone

Condensed is really thick and intensely sweet.

Good point. She clearly doesn't want that

Evaporated milk is highly concentrated and high protein. Condensed milk is evaporated milk with added sugar - it's what you use to make dulce de leche.

Semi-skimmed? That's my ideal milk.

I don't actually know what dulce de elche is :) but alsi used in cakes and to make Caramel if my memories of baking with my grandpa are correct

Mmmm condensed milk

I once made this error when my housebound nan sent me to the corner shop for some "milk in a tin" her dementia having erased the brand name from her memory.

I took her back condensed milk and she flipped her lid. "WHAT EXACTLY AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT!!!!?"

I mean, I have no idea but what exactly do you do with evaporated milk??? I've not a clue. My milk is from a bottle not a tin!

To make up for it I took the tin home and bought her a few of the correct tins with my weekly shop.

She passed away a few years later and I stood and sobbed the day I found the tin of condensed milk, long-since forgotten in the back of my pantry.

Gawd rest her soul.

(every time I see either tin it brings back the chastising I got 😂)

Could she mean dried milk?

Do you know what she might use it for. My grandmother used evaporated as a cream substitute, over puddings. Condensed she boiled in the tin for an eternity to make caramel for banoffee pie

Evaporated milk on steamed puddings, suet puddings, crumble, tinned peaches ... staple of a sixties / seventies childhood

Indeed Cadburys, my mum used to get syrup and jam sponges that she boiled in a tin for hours and then we would eat it with ideal milk 😁