View Single Post
  #14 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to alt.food.diabetic
Ricavito Ricavito is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 121
Default Substitute for Condensed Milk?

On Nov 1, 7:33*am, "W. Baker" > wrote:
> krom > wrote:
>
> : for pumkin pie i use a extra egg and heavy cream and splenda..works
> : fine..taste the same with same texture.
>
> : you could try cream with extra cream cheese and splenda..since it s key lime
> : pie anyhoo...
>
> : KROM
>
> Ynfortunately no eggs as this is a no-cook recipe. * also the recipes I
> looked at on lne called for lots of gelatine, which my recipe(which I hope
> to get on line wht America's test Kitchen posts it) cut back(they used
> some vanilla pudding as a thicken as well as a small amount of gelatine) *
> I had thought of double skimmed milk powder + cream and splenda. *Maybe
> more cream cheese, ending up with a kind of key lime cheesecake:-)
> Somehow using al *heavy cream bothers my overweight heart:-)
>
> Wendy


Hi Wendy, what about xanthum gum sprinkled in a milk/cream mixture to
thicken and splenda to sweeten? I've never used xanthum gum though,
so can't say how it works/tastes. Would almond flour act as a
thickener?