Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk

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Homemade Sweetened Condensed Milk

Submitted by: Lisa 10/30/2009 2:52 PM

Soon it'll be time to bake for the holidays. For your recipes that call for Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk, try this money saving version instead.

1 cup dry powdered milk
1/3 cup warm water
2/3 cup sugar
3 TBS melted butter

Mix together in a blender until smooth. Refrigerate. Makes 1 1/4 cups or one can of homemade Eagle milk. There is zero difference in the taste or the quality.

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Comments:

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Thanks Lisa for this tip. Can't wait to try it out. Great that I have all the ingredients in my cupboard and don't have to spend the extra cash to buy the cans for my holiday baking, as they are so expensive.

Posted by anonymous on November 05, 2009 4:09 PM

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Can you substitute Splenda for sugar?

Posted by Paul on November 05, 2009 5:41 PM

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Thank you for this Christmas present!

Posted by anonymous on November 05, 2009 7:48 PM

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@ Paul, Splenda has a product called "Sugar Blend for Baking" which my mom substitutes for sugar whenever a recipe calls for it. It's basically a half sugar half Splenda mix. This is for baking recipes. I'm guessing you probably wouldn't run into any problems using Splenda as a sugar substitute in this recipe. Let us know how it turns out if you try using Splenda.

Posted by Ray @ Tip Hero on November 05, 2009 9:38 PM

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I'd be cautious about using Splenda (sucralose) and similar sweeteners:

Sucralose (Splenda) is a Chlorocarbon.
It is in the same family of chemicals as DDT and PCBs.
Don't worry, it�s not DDT, it�s �DDT-Lite!�

Read more about that here: http://www.holisticmed.com/splenda/

Posted by Jo on November 07, 2009 12:48 PM

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I wouldn't eat splenda either but your reasons aren't substantial. There are no families in chemistry. Don't think that one chemical is dangerous just because it sounds like the name of another. Would you eat chlorine? Well how about sodium chloride?

Posted by anonymous on November 07, 2009 8:48 PM

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