Evaporated Milk

Rikki

I've just found two tins slightly out of date lurking at the back of the cupboard.

Any more recipe ideas welcome. :j

Pudding or cake maybe.

EssexHebridean

...I've done a search for this but not turned up anything that helped.

As part of a present, my Mum has given us a "Ready Steady Cook" style bag of ingredients to cook a three course meal from. The ingredients are:
Pasta
Half bottle white wine
Sun dried tomato paste
capers
dried mixed mushrooms
Pine nuts
evaporated milk
chocolate (Plain - 70% cocoa - yum!)
hob nobs biscuits
We also have £5 to spend on fresh ingredients, and Mum has agreed that we can "Pro-rata" this for quantities used. From the storecupboard we can use bread, flour, sugar, butter, herbs & spices.

So our menu is:
Starter: Mushroom risotto
Main: Pasta in a sun dried tomato and white wine sauce (I have extra sun blush toms to use from the fresh ingredients budget) with capers & pine nuts. Garlic bread (From storecupboard ingredients)
Pudding: Chocolate cheesecake (well obviously!) with cream (from fresh ingredients budget)


What I'm thinking for the evaporated milk is to use it to make some kind of toffee sauce to go with the cheesecake, but I'm struggling to find a recipe for this. Has anyone got any ideas?

I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has done anything like this before as well - I've done it a few times before but it generally used to be a "mercy mission" when things were tight when I lived at home to help Mum use up odds and bits that we had in rather than having to buy new.

Thanks in advance!

Penelope_Penguin

Is this any good I'll add this to the main evaporated milk thread later

Penny. x

EssexHebridean

Penny that's excellent! Well found - and thank you! :T

2cats1kid

OMG that recipe looks awesome! That's bookmarked for when I need some real comfort food!

mackidee

I use evaporated milk to make sticky toffee pudding sauce - very naughty but very very nice!

noonesperfect

I've had a quick look at the recipe index and nothing jumped out at me.

Having opened a large tin of evap milk to make pineapple jelly mousse I've got about 3/4 tin left to use up.

I'm unsure if I could maybe use it in place of milk in some muffins (oooh extra rich taste if it works!!). Maybe we'll have to use it to pour over a fruit crumble or something similar.

My OH can't eat curry unfortunately or I might have tasken the savoury route......

Rikki

Hot Fudge Sauce

Gypsy Tart

Rikki

Gary Rhodes ~ Gypsy Tart

You can make ice cream with it too.

juliapenguin

Rice pudding! Use any rice at all - my Mum's is wonderful and she only ever uses basmati.