Tasty but Pricy and Very, Very Sweet (Nestle Carnation Condensed Milk)

Member Name: DavyMichelle

Product:	Nestle Carnation Condensed Milk
Date:	04/04/09 (189 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tasty, Versatile

Disadvantages: Pricy, High in Cals

Nestle make the only condensed milk I even know of. I'm surprised that the supermarkets don't make their own brand make of this stuff, but I've never found one. I probably wouldn't like it as much as I do Nestle even if they did though!

This is quite hard on the wallet at £1.40 for a small tin. It also comes in a squeezy tube in one of two sizes but they're even worst value for money unfortunately. The plus side to getting one of the tubes though is that they keep in the fridge for up to three weeks. If you get a tin, you have to use it all in three days. That's not so hard though...

Condensed milk is basically sticky, thick, sugared milk that taste like the stickiest cream you can imagine. You can use it for lots of different things including drizzled on fruit salad, in baking (especially for the lime key pie they show the recipe for on the side of the tin) and this is brilliant for making home made ice cream with too. Some recipes ask you to heat up milk and boil it off with sugar then leave it to chill in the fridge. It speeds things right up by just getting a tin of this out of the fridge though.

This stuff is expensive like I said, but for use in things like ice cream and special home baking recipies, I think it's worth it. Go easy on it though because as I said before, it's basically just thickened milk and sugar (lots and lots of sugar).

Summary: Recommended