Okay, we’ve covered Sweetened Condensed Milk made at home with your powdered milk (if you missed that post click here) and now it’s time to enjoy evaporated milk! Evaporated Milk was created back in the 40’s as a way to replace expensive cream and whole milk in recipes. It is whole milk with more than half the water removed before it is homogenized. DO NOT USE IT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK. However, you can use it to substitute for half and half. Isn’t that great?! I know I don’t keep half and half stocked in my fridge. Use Evaporated Milk, made from your food storage, in any recipe by doubling the amount of the dry powdered milk and leaving the water the same. As a good rule of thumb to go by, for normal milk made from your non-instant powdered milk it is 3 T. dry powdered milk per 1 C. water and don’t forget there are 16 T. in a cup.
Evaporated Milk (12 oz. Can)
1 1/2 C. Water
1/2 C. + 1 T. non-instant Powdered Milk (or 1 C. + 2 T. instant powdered milk)
Doesn’t that look delicious?! It was unbelievable, WAYYYYY better than anything you can buy in the store, TONS cheaper, and helps you rotate your food storage!! Just think this recipe makes 3 cups (24 oz.) of sauce for under $2.50 and a Smuckers bottle only comes with 11.5 oz. and costs $3.00, that means it would cost $6.25 to buy this much hot fudge at the store! You’ve got to make this a staple in your fridge!
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Hot Fudge Sauce – Makes 3 Cups (From Betty Crocker’s Cookbook)
1 can (12 oz.) Evaporated Milk (1 1/2 C. water + 1/2 C. & 1 T. Powdered Milk)
2 C. Semisweet Chocolate Chips
1/2 C. Sugar
1 T. Butter or Margarine (Spreads with at least 65% vegetable oil)
1 t. Vanilla
1. In a 2-quart sauce pan mix your evaporated milk with a whisk. Add chocolate chips and sugar and heat over MEDIUM heat, stirring constantly until it boils.
2. Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla. Let cool for at least 30 minutes or until sauce behins to thicken. Serve warm. Store your remaining sauce covered in the refrigerator up to 4 weeks. Sauce become firm when refrigereated; heat slightly before serving (saue will become thin if overheated).
**Just as a side note for those who live in an area where Kroger brand items are sold. They now have a great knock off on the Dryers 1/2 fat slow churned ice cream for a fraction of the cost**
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My husband and I are going to adopting a baby and we don't know how we are going to be able to afford everything so I said, “We need to live off of food storage to save as much and we can until the adoption.” The only problem is that, despite all the food storage we have accumulated, I don't really know how to LIVE off of it!! I can't tell you the relief I felt when I came across your website. What a blessing! The milk recipe alone was such a gift alone due to the fact that we tried drinking it about a month ago for a few weeks and it was torture!! I have seen all the different options that you have opened up and the simple way you educate about them is wonderful. You have been blessed with a talent and I am SOOOOO grateful that you are sharing it with me. Thank you for all the time you spend updating this and thinking of more ideas because our pockets are going to be much happier=)
Yeah! I love it and congratulations on the new baby!
Yeah! I love it and congratulations on the new baby!
For the hot fudge sauce it says butter. Can butter powder be substituted and if so how much?