Keep Evaporated Milk on Hand: Quick tip

can we use milk powder?

question: evaporated mik in bechamel (white) sauce.

When I'm in a hurry, I'll scald whole milk in the microwave instead of simmering 2% (with an onion, bay leaf, and some whole cloves) for 15 or 20 minutes. This seems to work fine.

Since I'm already short-cutting, would evaporated milk be an equally functional short cut for when I don't have whole milk on hand (my one-year-old drinks it)?

So thinking backwards could you double the amount of dry milk powder and use it in place of evaporated milk?

Nice, thanks for the tip. I just came across your site. This is great I love the idea and blog posts, keep up the posts there is a lot that people need to learn these days (my generation, "X", does not know a lot of the most basic Home Ec stuff).

I use evaporated milk in potato soup. It has good flavor and then you can use the potato water to dilute it.

where is the knitting loom tutorial?

I find evaporated milk has a distinctive taste that works well in some things and less well in others. So does dry milk powder, which also has a distinctive taste - one that works well in the things evaporated milk doesn't work well in. So I keep both on hand, but more dry milk since it stores more compactly and works in more things.

Have fun at the conference! :o)

Thank you for this wonderful tip!

So excited to meet you and catch up with Ivy!

Looks like we'll have a good contingent of frugal/homemaking bloggers there, too.