A friend of mine was attempting that in our student days. He had to pay for redecoration of the kitchen in the rented house after the resulting explosion.
Carnation Condensed Milk
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He let it boil dry, didn't he ?
I've had a few 'explosions' myself, but thankfully never condensed milk ones.
We still don't talk about the chocolate covered balloons without cringing, and the less said about the blackcurrant syrup that fermented, the better.
There needs to be clarification about Carnation milk. Condensed milk is thick with the consistency of honey: the liquid Carnation stuff is evaporated milk.
This thread has reminded me of the way tea was made on the building site when I was a student.
Take one fairly clean galvanised iron bucket, fill with water and place on fire
of wood offcuts in oil drum. Add one whole packet of loose tea and can of condensed milk, stir once and bring to boil. Bring own enamel mug and dip into bucket. Foreman gets first dip, followed by senior tradesmen. Labourers go last and get tealeaves.
Canny student volunteers to make tea next day and gets dip in even before notifying foreman tea is ready.
Take one fairly clean galvanised iron bucket, fill with water and place on fire
of wood offcuts in oil drum. Add one whole packet of loose tea and can of condensed milk, stir once and bring to boil. Bring own enamel mug and dip into bucket. Foreman gets first dip, followed by senior tradesmen. Labourers go last and get tealeaves.
Canny student volunteers to make tea next day and gets dip in even before notifying foreman tea is ready.
Never tried it, reading all this i now want to
I was brought up on it and reading all this now reminds me why I don’t want to!
I love carnation milk, and traditional Scottish tablet made from condensed milk....pity I can't digest milk properly and it makes me incredibly nauseous....ice cream is horrible stuff.
I miss carnation milk though. It was lovely over a pudding, or made with rice for pudding.
I miss carnation milk though. It was lovely over a pudding, or made with rice for pudding.
Carnation is a brand that is like Hoover/ vacuum, with the name is used for what is properly called evaporated milk.
Is this a peculiar Scottish or British thing?
Is this a peculiar Scottish or British thing?
Carnation is a brand name used by Nestlé in the UK and Ireland.
Condensed and evaporated milk are both milk with 60% of the water removed; the difference is that condensed milk is sweetened while evaporated milk is unsweetened.
In France, they are both called "lait concentré" for "concentrated milk" but are marked explicitly either "sucré" ("sugared") or "non sucré", sold in cans or in "toothpaste" tubes.
Our Paddies used to add a bottle or half bottle of whisky or vodka to the tea bucket on cold winter days. And Boy was it cold, building new roads across open fields for some sort of new town called Milton Keynes.
Mleko is the Polish word for milk. Is there another word on the tube that could be the brand name? SM Gostyń, maybe?
Ref condensed and evaporated. Remembered.
At sea, "condensed', was known as 'Conny Onny' ,but I can't recall who it was made by...I think it had a pale blue label.
The tins were always opened with a Tennants beer tin, "top-end". spanner....this instrument gouged out a triangular coupon which had to be bunged to prevent access of cockroaches and various other Beasties.
For reasons unknown, evaporated milk was always referred as 'Shakey' and was mostly used as a topping for tinned fruit. These tins were breached with a couple of dings with a sturdy meat skewer.
Just some old memories.
Regards All
Ceeg
At sea, "condensed', was known as 'Conny Onny' ,but I can't recall who it was made by...I think it had a pale blue label.
The tins were always opened with a Tennants beer tin, "top-end". spanner....this instrument gouged out a triangular coupon which had to be bunged to prevent access of cockroaches and various other Beasties.
For reasons unknown, evaporated milk was always referred as 'Shakey' and was mostly used as a topping for tinned fruit. These tins were breached with a couple of dings with a sturdy meat skewer.
Just some old memories.
Regards All
Ceeg
I remember Carnation poured over strawberries for afters when we'd had tinned salmon with vinegar and salad for Sunday tea in summer. We still have a couple of those kitchen tools that punch a triangular hole in a can, sitting in the cutlery drawer. I don't remember ever using them since we moved from my grandmother's house, though, other than as a lever to let a bit of air into a screw-top jar.
