Quick Questions on ANYTHING part 2. Please read first post for links to other threads

quintwins

make them into fruit juice, add boiling water then leave to cool, keep in the fridge then add ice cubes if you ahve kids maybe add soem food colouring to make it more appealing

rosie383

Qwintwins You should try making your own condensed milk. You can buy smartprice/ basics powdered milk for around £1.60 for a 400g tin. Add the sugar, marg, doesn't really cost much. Maybe 20p in total and 3 mins to whisk. No contest really and it does work so easily.

quintwins

is it as sweet as condensed milk? i keep meaning to buy milk powder anyway to make some milk loafs and also for in my coffee because all too often i go to make it and there is none my mum used to keep milk powder but never used it for baking or anything and hated the taste of it in tea, yet we always had some in lol

Savvy_Sue

SCOTTISHLASS wrote: »

Hi everyone, im a MSE Newbie and hoping that im posting on the right place. Was having a cupboard clean out and have lots of flavoured teabags (mainly mint and chamomile) that wont get drunk, can anyone reccommend what I could use them for instead? thanks

If you're up for a bit of experimentation, you can soak dried fruit in them and use in fruit loaves. Personally I'm not a huge fan of mint or chamomile, but I can't see why chamomile wouldn't work. I have a stunning recipe which involves soaking apricots in Earl Grey tea and then whizzing it up with yoghourt. I think it's yoghourt anyway, long time no make!

rosie383

quintwins wrote: »

is it as sweet as condensed milk? i keep meaning to buy milk powder anyway to make some milk loafs and also for in my coffee because all too often i go to make it and there is none my mum used to keep milk powder but never used it for baking or anything and hated the taste of it in tea, yet we always had some in lol

IMHO it tastes exactly like the condensed milk from a tin, and you can just use it in recipes exactly the same way. Seems to keep ok in the fridge for a few days.
It costs £1.61 for the 400g bag of basics skimmed milk powder in Sains and I use it if I am baking/ making custard/ sauces etc. My dh likes to use it in his coffee, but I don't like the taste. I have made up a pint of it and put it in the milk bottle with the remains of the 'normal milk' if I know I don't have enough for breakfast, and no-one has noticed yet! Definitely handy to have in the house.

SCOTTISHLASS_2

thanks for those ideas re: using up fruit teas. Dont supposed anyone could tell me if i could use them for anything non-food related

quintwins

SCOTTISHLASS wrote: »

thanks for those ideas re: using up fruit teas. Dont supposed anyone could tell me if i could use them for anything non-food related

put them in your hoover bag they will act like a freshener, or you could keep them til colder weather and pop them behind the radiator

Savvy_Sue

SCOTTISHLASS wrote: »

thanks for those ideas re: using up fruit teas. Dont supposed anyone could tell me if i could use them for anything non-food related

compost? Eye masks?

tiny_courageous

Am poaching some pears in red wine (with some cinnamon sticks, vanilla, caster sugar and water), any suggestions as to what I can do with the liquid once the pears are done?

ceridwen

Having read an article a bit back on this woman who invented the "spiral eye" needle - ie Pam Turner invented a needle thats easy to thread - being a stainless steel needle with a gap in metal on one side of the needle

- i thought I'd head for my default "shop" - ie Amazon.co.uk and pick it up there. I cant find it anywhere on there. I can find on the American version (ie amazon.com) - but I dont want to go into the hassle of buying from an American website.

Have I missed it somewhere? Is it there on the British website somewhere I havent located - or is there anyplace else in Britain I could send a cheque off to and buy it?