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

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Help!

She seemed happy with the evaporated milk despite saying that wasn't what she wanted.
I have to say my heart sinks every time she takes me up on an offer of getting shopping as I know I'll spend ages stressing I'm getting the wrong stuff.

I saw the thread title and thought "That's easy! Evaporated milk."
I think it's an age thing.

It woukd have been helpful if she'd said yes then :) never mind

I really really want pineapple upside down pudding and evap now!

Ideal milk is/was a brand of evaporated milk as^^

What to make with it - fruit mousse or fluff, of course - basically, whisk a partly set jelly with the evap, and then put the fluff back in the fridge to set completely.

I use it to make rice pudding.

I use it when making yogurt! The kids like it on tinned fruit too (blast from the 70s!)

I used to have evaporated milk on jelly in the 70s. I haven't had it for years.

Showing our ages now!

Wait till she wants rennet then come back here - we can help with all 60s/70s recipes!

No-one seems to ear blancmange any more. I used to love chocolate blancmange.

My dad and I have Evap milk on our Christmas pudding, apple crumble, jelly, and tinned fruit, the rest of the family think were odd.

Evaporated milk. I had to use some in coffee recently when we ran out of milk, it was delicious! 😋

Evap on pineapple upside down pud. It's like being transported back to 1981. Mmmm.

I had a 'Spanish iced latte' from a coffee shop the other day. Bloody delicious, just espresso, milk and a teaspoon of condensed milk. So so so sweet. So buy a can of each, if she doesn't want the condensed milk make Spanish iced lattes!

Yum. Childhood ideal evaporated milk. On puddings, tinned peaches. Yum!

Jelly and blancmange for parties! My Dad always insisted on it for his birthday too!!

It's very good for making yoghurt. Yum.
I used to hate it on tinned fruit, but then I don't like cream or ice cream with tinned fruit, it's the mixture of cream & juice. Urgh.
Now milk jelly made with evap. Delicious.

@cwg1 I made a raspberry evap milk mousse for a supper party last weekend using exactly that method. Went down a storm, as always . I add pureed rasps to it.

Wonder what the average age of posters on this thread is . I'm 56.

50. DP is 65 and loves evap on puds, too.

I definitely remember having milk from a tin (in place of cream) on desserts in the 80s. Don’t know whether it was evaporated or condensed though.

Also remember having sterilised cream from a tin. It was really thick and tasted odd. I feel really old thinking back to those days, and I’m only 38 😄

What do people use condensed for, other than to boil and make caramel (which I’ve never been brave enough to do)?

DH takes squeezy tubes of carnation milk camping with him for coffee. Saves him carrying milk and sugar and takes up minimal space.

I now have a craving for tinned fruit and evap.

I condensed milk is lovely on a slice of white buttered bread.

51 here.

Did anyone else make mousse in Domestic Science lessons ?
Half jelly , half whipped up evaporated milk ?

35 going on 75. I also call evaporated milk 'Ideal milk'. Use it for steamed puddings and baked oats, so yummy. We used to steal tins of condensed milk from our mom's cupboards, make holes on either side of the tin lid and suck it all out little by little. So sickly, I cannot imagine doing that now!

I used condensed milk in a "Iemon cream pie" which is a 70s recipe of lemon, cream & condensed milk whisked together and poured onto a digestive or ginger biscuit base. Delicious