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Default Making Whole Milk from Skim Milk and Heavy Cream

On Mar 2, 9:00*am, "Steve Freides" > wrote:
> Bryan wrote:
> > On Saturday, March 2, 2013 7:57:05 AM UTC-6, Steve Freides wrote:
> >> OK, I know this is silly, but waste not, want not, so here we go:

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> >> We keep heavy cream in the 'frig - my wife likes to use it in sauces,

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> >> soups, etc., in small quantities.

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> >> Our next door neighbors are taking a trip and this morning, they
> >> brought

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> >> us an unopened container of orange juice (no problem there) and
> >> another

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> >> of skim milk.

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> >> My oldest is going to be home from college for a week and he's a
> >> whole

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> >> milk drinker. *I'd like to mix heavy cream and skim milk, in the
> >> right

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> >> proportions, which I hope someone here can tell me, to make the

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> >> equivalent of the whole milk I normally buy.

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> >> Shaking it won't be a problem - we buy unhomogenized dairy from time
> >> to

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> >> time and they're used to that particular weirdness of mine.

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> >> Thanks in advance, and apologies if I don't respond because I might
> >> not

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> >> have newsgroup access for a day or so myself.

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> > Heavy cream is ~50% butterfat by volume. *The minimum standard for
> > whole milk is 3.25% by volume.

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> > If you pour out 16 oz of milk, then add 8 oz of cream, you'll have
> > 120 oz of 3-1/3% with room to shake. *Be nice. *Add an extra ounce,
> > and up the milk fat to ~3.72%, or add a full 10 oz of cream for a
> > delicious ~4.1%, which is what whole milk, IMO, should be anyway.

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> >> -S-

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> > --Bryan

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> Thank you. *One answer, from you, plus one person telling me my question
> doesn't need an answer, plus one person telling me I'm a bad parent for
> even asking the question. Ain't newsgroups just wonderful?
>
> The math is what I was looking for - it's not a gallon, so I can adjust
> accordingly.
>
> -S-


Good grief...you had to even ask!