Turning Condensed milk into sweetened condensed milk

[woodhill]

Hi

I did try to research this first. I have a tin of condensed milk but the recipe requires sweetened condensed milk. I am making a lime cheesecake.

Would be a waste not to use this tin up. Could I add icing sugar to the mix. Using philadelphia etc

thanks

Can you even get unsweetened condensed milk? Do you mean evapourated milk? I don't know how you turn that into sweetened condensed milk, but it might help your googling.

I've never seen condensed milk that isn't sweet. Does it exist?

It looks like you boil evapourated milk up with sugar, if that is what you have.

I'm sure condensed milk is already sweetened

I also think all condensed milk is sweetened.

Look at the label. Does it have sugar?

Is this what you have? It's sweetened.

it is condensed milk and has sugar. I wasn't sure if it was different to sweetened CM the recipe specifies ITMS.

It's the same. If the recipe asks for sweetened condensed milk and you have condensed milk (not evaporated) then it is sweet. Just open it and taste, it's ridiculously sweet

I think it's just a difference of labelling.

Or maybe an American thing - is unsweetened condensed milk evaporated milk in the U.S.?

condensed and evaporated are 2 completely different products

Thanks