that recipes calling for evaporated milk, include in the recipe a note about how, indeed, you need evaporated milk and NOT sweetened condensed milk? Recipes calling for sweetened condensed milk often do the same thing.
Why is that?
The can sizes, in my experience, are different. The labeling is different. And, once you open the can, the milks certainly look different from each other.
Is this really such a common problem, that we need a warning in each recipe we come across that calls for one or the other? Has it even ever been a problem, except, perhaps, for when canned milk products were newly introduced to the general public?
I think it must be to some novice cooks. They make the generalization: oh...that milk stuff in a can. And then just pick up a product like that, without understanding that there really is a difference between the two products. Unless you've opened the cans and used both products, I think it's an understandable mistake to make.
ReplyDeleteSusan, you are so thoughtful :)
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