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Boiling A Can
Of Condensed Milk
(Don't!)
Emily asks: What is the recipe where one takes a can of sweetened condensed milk and boils in in water a long while? I have always heard about it, but never knew what it produced, how long to simmer it and then, what to do with it. It does state on the can,"never heat unopened can." Tom sez: What this allegedly makes is a custard. It isn't, really, because there are no eggs in there. What you wind up with is something like panna cotta, the eggless Italian custard-like dessert. Or dulce de leche, the Latin American sweet-and-caramelized milk dessert. However, the manufacturers of condensed milk say in no uncertain terms that this should never be done. Cans have been known to explode. I strongly recommend you don't try this. Instead, here's a very good recipe for panna cotta, which is not hard to make and will be better than this boiled can stuff. The only reason anyone ever did that was to be able to say they did. Revised 3/10/08 Copyright © 2008 Tom Fitzmorris. All rights reserved. |
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