GB wrote:
On 19/04/2018 16:51, Bob Minchin wrote:
Does any one recall brand names of Condensed milk (the thick gloopy
sweet white stuff) that used to come in tins about 2/3 the height of
stand baked bean type tins. This would have been around 50 years ago.
My recollection was of a mainly white label with possibly blue
writing on it but I just can't summon up a name.

BTW I am NOT thinking of evaporated milk such as Carnation.

According to this website
https://www.thekitchn.com/what-s-the...ed-milk-125900

"Both condensed milk and evaporated milk are forms of concentrated
milk in which approximately 60 percent of the water content has been
removed. The major difference that sets these two canned milk
products apart is sugar content; sweetened condensed milk, as the
name implies, is always sweetened, while evaporated milk is
unsweetened."
"Condensed milk contains 40 to 45 percent sugar." !!!!
(That's a lot of sugar.)

Why not just buy some evaporated milk and a large bag of sugar, then
mix them up to make condensed milk?

44 years ago I was Chief Engineer on a small oil tanker sailing out of
Fleetwood. Fleetwood is in Lancashire.
The milk supplied was condensed milk and I found it to be utterly
disgusting, both by taste and smell. The other members of the crew had no
problem with it. I drank my coffee black.