Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk

Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk

　
For all of us who want to know what's going into our food and be a little more healthy here are two recipes (powdered milk version & non-powdered milk version) for Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk as well as a "quickie".

For this recipe you will need just a few simple ingredients.

1/2 cup cold water

1 1/3 cup non-fat milk powder

3/4 cup of sugar (I use Evaporated Cane Juice or Raw Sugar)

1 tsp vanilla

Dissolve milk powder in water then all sugar and simmer over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Heat over medium heat stirring constantly until it thickens slightly. Stir in vanilla, remove from heat, cool completely (it will thicken more as it cools).

Store in air-tight container in refrigerator. I can't tell you how long it will last since I usually use mine up within a day or so.

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Non-Powdered Milk version

For this version you will need...

1 1/2 cups milk

2/3 cups sugar (again I use Evaporated Cane Juice or Raw Sugar)

2 TBSP butter

1 tsp vanilla

Mix sugar and milk together in a pan, bring to a low simmer over medium-low heat. As soon as steam starts coming up off the milk reduce the heat even more. Once sugar is completely dissolved turn the heat down to as low as it can go.

The goal here is to reduce the contents of the pan (the milk and sugar) by half of its current measurements (which is about 1 3/4 cup), which would be approx. 1 cup. Simmer on low for 1-2 hours to reduce. You could speed it up by turning the heat up a bit, but make sure you are stirring it often, so as to prevent scorching.

Once reduced, whisk in the butter and vanilla. The ending result is equal to just less than one can of "store bought" sweetened condensed milk.

Store in air tight container.

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Okay, now for the quickie recipe. This version is soo super easy and fast.
Are you ready? You will be blown away with how east this seriously is. . .

Mix 2/3 cup sugar with one can of Evaporated Milk. You may need to heat in a saucepan to fully dissolve the sugar. That's it. See how easy???

Even though this version is so easy and quick, I prefer the homemade version because if you make it this way you still have the unhealthy can lining and whatever other artificial ingredients and preservatives they added to the Evaporated milk to make the milk shelf stable.

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Now you can enjoy all your many recipes that call for sweetened condensed milk without the guilt of all the unhealthy things that may or may not be in the store bought brands.

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Have fun cooking,