Where is all the evaporated milk?

baser999

Carnation at local Waitrose yesterday 

Krakkkers

Own brands are missing.

Rosa_Damascena

Katiehound said:

tinned peaches and evaporated milk!- often appeared in childhood

There was also a popular dessert  which was whisked evap with jelly (half quantity of water) which made a nice mousse on a biscuit base.
can't find that recipe- something similar here:
https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/strawberry-evaporated-milk-flummery-recipe/u9ug6uho

Jelly mousse was one of the first things we learned to make in Home Ec!

p00hsticks

Katiehound said:

tinned peaches and evaporated milk!- often appeared in childhood

There was also a popular dessert  which was whisked evap with jelly (half quantity of water) which made a nice mousse on a biscuit base.
can't find that recipe- something similar here:
https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/strawberry-evaporated-milk-flummery-recipe/u9ug6uho

aaargghhh! Just realised that my recipe for that dessert has gone walkies! It was in an old recipe booklet produced by carnation and we used to love trying out different combinations of flavours - as I recall the base is simply crushed biscuits and melted butter pressed down onto the base of a flan dish (or individual dessert ramekins) withthe back of a spoon and chilled, before topping with a mixture of the 'mousse; you mentioned - whisked carnation with jelly made up with half the usual water, chilled and then optinally topped with fruit. Our favourite used ginger biscuits topped with orange jelly and tinned mandarin slices, but digestives and lime is also nice...

Katiehound

p00hsticks said:

Katiehound said:

tinned peaches and evaporated milk!- often appeared in childhood

There was also a popular dessert  which was whisked evap with jelly (half quantity of water) which made a nice mousse on a biscuit base.
can't find that recipe- something similar here:
https://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipes/strawberry-evaporated-milk-flummery-recipe/u9ug6uho

aaargghhh! Just realised that my recipe for that dessert has gone walkies! It was in an old recipe booklet produced by carnation and we used to love trying out different combinations of flavours - 

You are in luck!

From 'The Carnation sure-to-please family cookbook

No bake Orange Cream pie. Serves 6
pie case: 6 oz sweetmeal biscuits.
               3 oz melted butter
Filling:    half orange jelly
               small can Carnation  (or half L can?)
               small can mandarin oranges

Crush biscuits into crumbs (in plastic bag is easiest) , put into bowl
Add melted butter. Mix with fork
line deep pie plate or 8" sandwich tin with mixture.
leave until firm

Dissolve jelly in boiling water & make up to 1/4 pint with juice drained from fruit
Cool
Chop half the fruit
Whip Carnation until double in bulk, whisk in jelly and chopped fruit
Pour into flan case, decorate with remaining fruit & leave in cool place until firm.

Lemon cream pie:  use 1/2 lemon jelly, grated rind & juice of 1 lemon
Pineapple Cream Pie: Use 1/2 lemon jelly& small can of pineapple

p00hsticks

@katiehound That's the one ! thank you ! I'll make a note of it in case the book doesn;t turn up - I'm hoping it;s in storage following a recent downsizing move....

thriftytracey

Rosa_Damascena said:

thriftytracey said:

My husband has been able to obtain evaporated milk which he uses on his tin of fruit cocktail (also from Lidl).  He still likes it - hark back to his childhood in Birmingham living in back to back housing.  (Seven sisters and three brothers - although as he was the second youngest some of them had left home by then!).

For those of us who had it in childhood there is something very comforting about it! 

I remember having mashed tangerine jelly with tinned clementines swimming in evaporated milk - delicious to my childhood tastebuds and I wouldn't say no now either.

I still inwardly gasp when I see such decadent desserts offered by the supermarkets at Christmas.  I like sweet things but I find the offerings now too much.  It's like at a pub when the dessert list is proffered - chocolate fudge cake, mississipi mud pie and the like - usually nothing I fancy - e.g. lemon meringue pie, pannacotta etc.  

I remember a real treat in childhood was a packet of instant lemon meringue pie and I was always fascinated by the little capsule in the lemon powder mix!

Just looking at the chocolate and caramel cottage Lidl are offering makes me feel a teeny bit sick ...

Farway

thriftytracey said:

Rosa_Damascena said:

thriftytracey said:

My husband has been able to obtain evaporated milk which he uses on his tin of fruit cocktail (also from Lidl).  He still likes it - hark back to his childhood in Birmingham living in back to back housing.  (Seven sisters and three brothers - although as he was the second youngest some of them had left home by then!).

For those of us who had it in childhood there is something very comforting about it! 

I remember having mashed tangerine jelly with tinned clementines swimming in evaporated milk - delicious to my childhood tastebuds and I wouldn't say no now either.

I still inwardly gasp when I see such decadent desserts offered by the supermarkets at Christmas.  I like sweet things but I find the offerings now too much.  It's like at a pub when the dessert list is proffered - chocolate fudge cake, mississipi mud pie and the like - usually nothing I fancy - e.g. lemon meringue pie, pannacotta etc.  

I remember a real treat in childhood was a packet of instant lemon meringue pie and I was always fascinated by the little capsule in the lemon powder mix!

Just looking at the chocolate and caramel cottage Lidl are offering makes me feel a teeny bit sick ...

Oooh, I remember that one, seemed very exotic at the time, and made a nice change from Lyon's individual fruit pie [the square ones, 6d sixpence each] swimming in evaporated milk

Katiehound

I seem to remember that we used to use cheapie broken biscuits to make the flan base! Never see those anymore.
After that we used digestive biscuits.

I am wondering if you could make a reasonable 'pie' with lemon jelly & cheap tinned peaches or segments of clementines /satsumas/ whatever (instead of the expensive tinned kind!) with an orange jelly.

When hunting in the cupboard found the decorated white pyrex (a freebie with something?) which often contained one of those pies. Might have to make one again but it would be more sense in ramekins.

Vintage retro phoenix- milkglass flan dish- can buy another for £4.50 on ebay!! says it's 60s...
 
 

General_Grant

Katiehound said:

I seem to remember that we used to use cheapie broken biscuits to make the flan base! Never see those anymore.
After that we used digestive biscuits.

I am wondering if you could make a reasonable 'pie' with lemon jelly & cheap tinned peaches or segments of clementines /satsumas/ whatever (instead of the expensive tinned kind!) with an orange jelly.

When hunting in the cupboard found the decorated white pyrex (a freebie with something?) which often contained one of those pies. Might have to make one again but it would be more sense in ramekins.

Vintage retro phoenix- milkglass flan dish- can buy another for £4.50 on ebay!! says it's 60s...
 
 

Think I've seen packets of "broken biscuits" this year - perhaps in Iceland.