There is much pointless to talk about the benefits of home-made products: they are healthier, tastier, environmentally much cleaner than those surrogates that we have to buy in supermarkets. And therefore, in our article we will tell you about how to cook condensed milk by yourself - a wonderful treat, loved since childhood.
Preliminary Tips
Before you boil sugar with milk, you need to consider several nuances. Ideally, if the main product is purchased directly from the "manufacturer", that is, from the hands of a private trader. Of course, our homegrown craftsmen also sharpened their "chemical", but not to the same extent as in factory production. Necessarily milk should be whole, fat, fresh. If you take a store, then, before you boil sugar with milk, examine the composition on the label. In the presence of vegetable fats, do not categorically use it in food!
Useful properties and not very
Condensed milk is not just a tasty treat. It contains the most important vitamins for us: A, groups B, C, PP. In addition, it contains more than 56 percent carbohydrates, which makes sweetness an important source of energy for our body. Having learned about how to boil sugar with milk, do not think that you can consume condensed milk in unlimited quantities. On a day of 20-25 grams - this is the optimal dose that will be very useful to you in reality.
Homemade condensed milk
Let's move from theory to practice. Let's talk about how to boil sugar with milk (powdered), cream and regular milk. Take a quarter cup of whole fresh milk, one and a half cup of dry product, the same amount of sugar. Pour liquid into a saucepan, add a little of the powder, stirring thoroughly to prevent lumps. Dissolve sugar in milk by placing a saucepan in a water bath. Boil the contents for about an hour at a moderate boil, stirring regularly. The sweet mass should evaporate until thickened. If desired, you can add a little vanilla.
Second recipe
Cooking milk with sugar can be a little different. This method is good in that it is faster, does not require tedious evaporation. The output will be about a liter of condensed milk. Ingredients: 800 grams of milk powder or cream, 50 grams of cow's butter, 1 cup of regular milk. How to cook sugar in milk in this case? The recipe is simple. The liquid must be boiled, put sugar and butter, beat well (with a whisk or a blender). At the same time, pour in a thin stream of milk powder. When the mixture becomes homogeneous, stop whisking and simply boil in a water bath until the milk thickens. The full process of thickening will occur when you put the cooled delicacy for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
From grandmother’s notebooks
They began to cook condensed milk long before it appeared in canned form. One of the oldest and most famous methods we will present to your attention. Take a liter of high fat milk. Pour a pound of sugar. Put the saucepan on a small fire and cook for 2.5-3 hours so that the contents become sufficiently thick and malleable. As soon as the droplets stop flowing, remove the treat from the heat. Just do not try to reduce the cooking time by increasing the heat - the condensed milk will surely burn. The whole secret lies precisely in its slow heat treatment.
In addition to the above
What else can please lovers of delicious? Now we will tell. Pour a liter of milk with a high fat content into a cast iron with thick walls and bottom. Stew it over low heat for about an hour and a half. During this time, the water will evaporate. True, you need to stir all the time so that the milk does not run away. Then add 300-450 grams of sugar and boil for another hour, also continuously mixing. About 500 grams of condensed milk is obtained from the indicated amount of products. It will be like a store to taste.
Condensed milk in a water bath
Yes, you can cook sweet milk in a water bath. To do this, pour it into a jar (not to the brim!), Add sugar (at the rate of 300 grams per liter), cover with a lid, but not a nylon, but an enamel, of a larger diameter. This will allow moisture to evaporate, and the jar will not burst. In the pan at the bottom you need to put sheets of paper or a wooden wire rack, put a can in it, then pour water, but more than milk in the pan. Let the water boil, then reduce the gas and slowly boil for more than 2 hours. Pour water into the pan as it evaporates. Readiness of
condensed milk is determined by its color. It should be intense beige. Just do not interfere with the product, otherwise it may curl.
Milk from ... a bread machine
And finally, a recipe for those who have bread machines. Do not be surprised, they can also cook condensed milk in them. Take a liter of whole milk, 350 grams of sugar, a bag of vanillin. Heat the milk, and as soon as it starts to boil, pour into a baking dish and put in a bread machine. Pour vanilla with sugar, set the jam / jam program and turn it on several times until the milk becomes thick.