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

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this is a great recipe for condensed milk www.carnation.co.uk/Recipes/58/Raspberry-and-White-Chocolate-Chunk-Cookies

my mum remembers having condensed milk sandwiches as a treat!

Evaporated milk was a staple ingredient in our puddings growing up (late 70s / early 80s). With jelly or steamed puddings or tinned fruit. Basically anything you'd put single cream over but much cheaper.

Evap with tinned fruit. Or evap with a tinned syrup pudding.

I wouldn't know what it was. Never heard of it.

Condensed milk is good for making fudge!

My colleague spoke about how he had it with bread and we all mocked him so he brought in a tin and a crusty baguette and I am now a convert!

I use evaporated milk to make rice pudding & condensed milk to make fudge, sweets in general. Now I want to go get the pots out lol.

Whoever mentioned chocolate blancmange, I still make it now and then. Dh loves it, was a favourite in his family. My mother used to serve it warm and call it chocolate pudding.
V easy, just cornflour, cocoa powder, milk and sugar.

Popular with kids!

Evap milk was a substitute for cream on puddings or fruit when I was a child. Condensed is much thicker - a lot more water taken out.

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

How did I not know this existed? I am going to buy some and squeeze it straight into my mouth.

Evap milk and tinned peaches were a particular match made in heaven !

Had it served with the morning tea tray on a sleepless overnight train from Malaysia to Singapore a couple of years ago and it was delicious in the circumstances - haven’t tried it at home though . Still used in a lot of tropical countries as it keeps so well without refrigeration.

We used to make an ice cream ( frozen in the small ice tray section of the fridge, before freezers were generally available) made by whisking together evap milk, vanilla and raw eggs.

I only associate condensed milk with fudge and dessert making.

That sterilised tinned cream was so very brilliantly white and had an metallic and chalky taste but was also a big treat.

Ideal and Carnation are/were brands of tinned evaporated milk. Used as cream with puddings many years ago. Some people also liked it in their tea and coffee, it's very sweet.

I'm 45 Leno ,it's definatley a generational thing

Is Tip Top evaporated milk? We used to have that on puddings as kids.

I thought Carnation was condensed milk, or are evap and condensed, both the same

Carnation do both. So I discovered. :) I also remember tip top but can't remember what we bought it for when I was a child.

Yes, definitely evap milk.
Tinned peaches with evap milk was a treat in the Seventies for us.
We also made the mousse with whipped evap milk and jelly. And for those with the old Be-Ro recipe book, there's a recipe in it for chocolate cake made with evap milk which is delicious.

Ah that'll be what the top top was for. We made that cake regularly when i was a child. Now my. Mum makes me posh chocolate cake with ganache etc. I long for that be ro book cake.
Its hard being a kid aged 40.

Tip Top was/is a cream substitute. Like a tinned version of Elmlea.

I preferred the tins of cream, but evap milk has a particular taste, not quite burned, but very distinctive, similar but stronger than the taste of UHT milk - none of these versions are interchangeable, by the way.

The worst was the smell, taste and texture of anything made up with dried milk powder (kept in the cupboard next to the box of candles ready for the next powercut - when they'd stopped happening about eight years beforehand). Considering I was exclusively bottle fed, I'm surprised just how much I hated the stuff.

We used to have condensed milk on porridge, and evaporated milk on tinned fruit.
My godparents used to drink tea made with evaporated milk - it was so strong it was brick-red and you could almost stand the spoon up in it!

Evaporated milk makes the best rice pudding. I always liked it on an apple crumble too, back in the day.

Tinned fruit and evap takes me back. I’ve not bought evap for decades.

Condensed milk has its uses in cheesecake, fudge and rice pudding though.

Used to eat condensed milk straight from the tin - yum. Also evap milk (carnation) on fruit crumble is food of the gods

If you've never had evaporated milk on fruit crumble or tinned peaches, you really haven't lived! (I'm 45)

This had just reminded me that mum used to make a chocolate orange jelly with a partially set orange jelly, chocolate and I think evaporated milk.

Must get the recipe from her as both dc are rubbish at drinking milk and ds is really struggling for protein in his diet so if it’s high protein that could be a useful thing to try to get him to eat.

Anybody know if it’s also good for calcium or other vitamins and minerals you’d usually find in milk?

Ah, @cwg1, that takes me back! Total childhood pudding staple - sometimes if she was pulling out all the stops my DM would do it with pineapple jelly and add tinned pineapple chunks.

Love love love evap! 🤗

Must get some. Wonder if you can still get Tip Top?

Also yy to sterilised cream!! Massively outing to my sister on here mcvities Jamaican ginger cake with tinned mandarin oranges and sterilised cream was our mother's signature dessert and possibly the only nice memory of her sadly