Recipes for evaporated milk

[pg]

Every time I go in the larder there's that tin of evaporated milk - for 'just in case'.

Well the snow's gone. So what to do with it? Any recipe suggestions that use evaporated milk - sweet or savoury?

[pg]

[SueK]

Hello pg,
For us the ultimate store cupboard recipe has to be Nigella"s flan, or, to us lesser mortals, creme caramel.  I don't have a link right now but if you do a search you will find it very easily.

The positives are that it's largely store cupboard ingredients but seems very sophisticated for what it is, plus it gets dairy and eggs into the children.

The negatives?  I'm afraid you also need a tin of condensed milk as well.....! 
Sue

[Mrs Tweedy]

Hi PG
You can make a wonderful rice pudding with it or some fudge. You can add it to custard too.

You can also make a fudge icing for topping cup cakes, or banana or apple cake.
75g dark brown sugar
50g butter..... must be butter
3 tablespoons evaporated milk

melt the above and then sizzle on high for about 4-5 minutes

take off the heat and allow to cool for a minute or two and then beat in100g sifted icing sugar until smooth.

If too thick beat in 1-2 tablespoons of boiled water and use to top cakes.
I use this on banana cake and apple and cinnamon tray bake.  I keep the evaporated milk  that I don't use in 3 tablespoon quantities in the freezer.

[goodlife]

Add it into bread and butter pudding....MMMMM....and if you have got some mince left from Christmas, that would do well as extra too

[grannyjanny]

Nice in & on porridge.

[katynewbie]

Banoffee Pie? Lots of recipes online

[Duke Ellington]

Look up KULFI recipes on google.

[green lily]

Just pour it on your morning porridge..

[Jeannine]

Heat it  and use it instead of water when making jelly(see packet directions for how much), it turns into a lovely set creamy mousse and drop dead easy. XX Jeannine

[winecap]

Every tin of evaporated milk that passes through my home gets turned into pumpkin pie. I still have three pumpkins sitting on the stairs (the coolest part of the house) and they have kept really well this year. Roast pumpkin for dinner again tonight, but if only I had a tin of evaporated milk...

[susan1]

My husband would just drink it given the chance 

[GrannieAnnie]

cocoanut custard pie.
and if you don't have time to make the pie shell, then cocoanut custard.
and if you don't have cocoanut, then vanilla custard.

[artichoke]

My mother-in-law used to chill it, whip it and freeze it to make quantities of very easy icecream.I seem to remember she heated the tin first, but according to reipes I am wrong:

http://www.crunchycreamysweet.com/2012/05/25/whipped-milk-ice-cream-no-machine/

http://www.cooksunited.co.uk/rs/s0/evaporated+milk/recipes.html

[Duke Ellington]

Artichoke.... My dad used to make a really lovely peach ice cream back in the 70's and he boiled the evaporated milk in the tin too! Strange .....do you think the formula of evaporated milk has changed?

[artichoke]

Right, so I have remembered correctly about boiling in the tin, thanks! My m-in-law's icecream was very plain, and she doled it out in vast slabs that you were obliged to eat your way through. Your father's sounds much nicer. Maybe I should try again, as although I have a cheapo machine, the mixtures seem to me very expensive, whereas a mixture of whipped up boiled evap and home grown fruit should be more economical.

[goodlife]

Heat it  and use it instead of water when making jelly(see packet directions for how much), it turns into a lovely set creamy mousse and drop dead easy. XX Jeannine

MMMM...must try that.. I don't have any EM tins in cupboard, but I might just buy few to try that trick

[Mrs Tweedy]

Artichoke, if you have an icecream machine the mixes don't have to be expensive. You can make sherberts with fruit, water, sugar and a small amount of single cream.

Sorbets are also economical.

I have had an icecream machine with a built in freezer for the past 20 years and haven't bought icecreams and sorbets etc since.

You can also make a really refreshing sherbert with yoghurt too. I have really had my money's worth from the machine.

There is a really good book called Cool Seductions by Rosemary Moon, which isn't very expensive and it has loads of really good recipes in, some of which are reasonably economical.

[artichoke]

Mrs Tweedy, thanks for the advice! I use my machine when children are staying, and the recipe seems to need a lot of bought cream - fruit is all right because I have loads of it in the freezer from the allotment. When I diluted the recipe, it was less popular.......but I should try again, I agree.

[Mrs Tweedy]

My pleasure, Artichoke.

I have a standard all purpose recipe that I use when I want icecream in a hurry but don't want to try a new recipe, which is......

Make a stock syrup by mixing 300ml water with 8oz caster sugar in a pan. Simmer until disolved and boil for 2-3 mins until you have a thick sweet syrup.  Leave until cold and then mix with 300ml of fruit puree and 1-2 tablespoons of creme fraiche. I often use reduced  fat creme fraiche. Then churn.

You can also make up a batch of the stock syrup and keep it in the fridge so you have some ready to hand if you are in a hurry.

[artichoke]

Does "then churn" mean put icecream maker into freezer and leave it to churn until it grinds to a halt? Mine is the purely mechanical sort that only turns a paddle and doesn't need freezing first.

Thanks for the recipe - I will try it. Visitors expected soon.