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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Evaporated milk vs. regular?


>>> On 12/17/2015 7:11 PM, wrote:
>>>> I thought I'd make an onion pie. The recipe calls for 1/3 can of evaporated milk. Aside from the nuisance of finding something else to do with the leftover part, I wondered - what IS the benefit of using that instead of regular milk? (I always use skim for most things, but if a recipe calls for whole milk, I can always add some powdered milk.)
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>>>> Lenona.
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>>> I'd try it. Evaporated has water taken out and adding powder has the
>>> same effect.

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>> Why go through all that effort when you can substitute cream?
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>> sf


But if all you have in the house is powder. . .