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In Denmark we don't have condensed milk in our regular stores and I've actually only seen it in an UK-import store a few years ago. Is there an alternative to it or can you craft it with regular cooking equipment?

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Is that sweetened condensed milk or evaporated milk? If one is talking about condensed they usually mean the sweetened stuff, but occasionally they mean evaporated instead. – BarrettJ Jul 9 '10 at 20:24
I'm not sure to be honest, the recipes I've been looking at only says condensed, like in a toffee topping on a pie. – cyberzed Jul 9 '10 at 20:39
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If you're making something sweet it's almost always sweetened condensed. – BarrettJ Jul 9 '10 at 20:43
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SuperBrugsen which must be considered a regular store carries Nestles condensed milk. However you may need to ask for where they put it - in my local SuperBrugsen it sits on the shelve with turkish goods. – soegaard Sep 20 '11 at 17:26

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To make sweetened condensed milk:

The best make-your-own version is to mix 1 cup of evaporated milk with 1-1/4 cups of sugar in a saucepan, heat and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved, and let cool.

If you don't have evaporated milk on hand either, you can make your own by slowly simmering any quantity of milk in a pan until it reduced by 60%, and then adding the sugar.

Source: http://www.ochef.com/125.htm

Another recipe that sounds like a lot more work and uses powdered milk: http://www.ehow.com/how_4903555_make-condensed-milk.html

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Evaporated milk is...? (unknowing dane here :)) – cyberzed Jul 9 '10 at 20:40
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Evaporated milk is milk that has had some of it's water content removed (by evaporation or cooking it off, slowly). – BarrettJ Jul 9 '10 at 20:43
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You could also make condensed milk from regular whole milk. Just cook down the milk (whilst stirring constantly to stop the milk sticking and burning) in a heavy bottomed pot until it loses about a quarter / a third of its volume, then add the sugar. – Bala Clark Jul 10 '10 at 17:36
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This has some good to amazing reviews.

Sweetened condensed milk substitute

  • 2 eggs
  • 1 c. brown sugar
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 tbsp. flour
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp. salt

Mix all ingredients and use as a substitute for sweetened condensed milk in recipes for pies, bars and desserts.

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Sweetened condensed milk really is just milk with a bunch of sugar and less water. This is going to be way different - different flavor from the salt, vanilla, and brown sugar, different thickening and binding properties from the eggs and flour, and maybe even a bit of leavening from the baking powder. – Jefromi♦ Apr 4 '12 at 22:23
This recipe has some great qualitys, and it is made from basic kitchen ingredents! This recipe was also a help to my sister who was making cheescake, and we didn't happen to have some spare condensed milk around the kitchen! Thank you, " Seasoned Advice"! – Camille Besson Mar 13 at 20:52
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Mix 2 1/4 cups of blue milk and 1/2 cup of sugar. Mix.

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What is blue milk? Googling provides no reasonable hits. – SAJ14SAJ May 18 at 14:25
@SAJ14SAJ Wild guess: 2% milk, since I think it's the one most commonly sold with a blue label? – Jefromi♦ May 18 at 17:14
@Jefromi I had no idea there was a convention for that--but it would be regional, if it exists, I think... – SAJ14SAJ May 18 at 17:24
My guess is it's regional. Where I live evaporated milk is usually labelled in blue. But googling it with its English name shows many cans with red labels. – J.A.I.L. May 18 at 23:50

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