Help - Milk has gone off..... ( sour milk or cream )

NualaBuala

fiscalfreckles wrote: »

I think this is for very slightly sour milk, or milk that has been soured by the addition of lemon juice. Please don't anybody use milk that has seperated. Unless you know how to make cheese...!

Some of the pages discuss the different "types" of souring and how sour raw milk differs from sour pasteurised milk. The bacteria that cause the milk to sour are lactobacilli - not pathogenic. The turn the milk sugar, lactose into lactic acid. It's quite a fascinating subject!

albacookie

Make scones with it - they'll taste fine and I've never made anyone ill with them!

oliveoyl

Chuck it in the compost bin (if you've got one).

Slinky_Malinky

A friend`s mum used to let milk go sour to make Irish soda bread - not sure quite how far gone it used to be though.

helyg

My MIL uses sour milk to make pancakes

Penelope_Penguin

dawnsong wrote: »

I've got 4 pint carton of semi- skimmed milk that has soured and separated - would it be safe to use for cooking / baking? if so, what could i use it for?

If I have milk that's just on the turn, I freeze it and use it for cheese sauce

If it's really turned, it's no longer fit to eat.

Only you can decide which yours is

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the exisitng thread, to give you more ideas, if it is still fit

Penny. x

Olliebeak

purpleivy wrote: »

I have a really old book called 'Cookery Illustrated and Household Management'. Sadly no date in it. There is a whole section devoted to Keeping down the Household Bills, which includes 2 sectons named Making the most of Leftovers and Dodges to Prevent Waste!.


It lists the following

• Sour milk cheese
• Sour milk scones
• Sour milk girdle scones
• Sour milk gingerbread
• Spiced Raisin Cake

Edited: Seems to have been published first in 1936. :rotfl:Ya just get on with it, don'cha

I don't know how I've managed without reading this from cover to cover. There's a chapter on 'Entertaining without a Maid'!

purpleivy - your post was soooooo helpful to me in particular. Many years ago I bought a copy of this book in a charity shop (paid 50p for it), but it's one of the books that stayed behind when I left the ex-OH. I've been trying to remember the name of it for absolutely ages and you've just jogged my memory. I've been a-googling and found it on Amazon for £4.50 and just bought it again :j. Between that and my old faithful Mrs Beeton's, is how I learned all my baking and cooking.

catman-without_wings

I am sure that there are many threads on here about this but I can't seem to find them:o

We have a 3ltr carton of milk that is very sour. I really don't want to throw it out if i can help it.

I am sure that you can bake with it. If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful.

Nothing overly complicated please. Will have up to 4 hours from beginning to end as we have family coming up to us tomorrow.


Pink, Pen Pen and Zippy Sorry for the (I'm sure) duplicate post. I have looked to no avail.

Hope you are all well. Many thanks for all the kindness, help and advice you all give so freely.

CM.

Penelope_Penguin

catman-without_wings wrote: »

We have a 3ltr carton of milk that is very sour. I really don't want to throw it out if i can help it.

I am sure that you can bake with it. If anyone has any ideas I would be very grateful.

Nothing overly complicated please. Will have up to 4 hours from beginning to end as we have family coming up to us tomorrow.

If it's just slightly on the turn, you can use it in scones (the lactic acid in the milk reacts with the bicarb in the raising agent, making carbon dioxide gas, to aid raising ).

If it honks, then it's past it, and you must chuck it

More info in this thread (you knew I'd find something, didn;t you ). I'll add this later.

v8monkeyboy

Hi

There are loads of uses for sour milk, some of which are:

Buttermilk scones (use instead of buttermilk)
Buttermilk pancakes

In fact, there's a whole page devoted to buttermilk recipes, where I would substitute it for soured milk:

http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blmisc46.htm (sorry, don't know how to do the nice linky thing)

Hope this helps,

T x