Sweetened Condensed Milk cooked into caramel sauce?

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10-21-2017, 08:25 AM

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Jan in VA

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This Yummy substance is the base for the glorious Butterscotch pie served at O'Charley's. I tried it and was scared to death the can would explode, but all was well.

Jan in VA

I'm confused, Jan. No mention of a can here, except the evaporated milk would come in one. But the pie sounds fantastic!

You're right, I realize there was no can mentioned. Hmmmm. Maybe I just knew to boil that in the can because the O'Charley's waiter had told me. There are also recipes online about it.

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10-21-2017, 10:27 AM

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My mother made this a lot. Bites were calculated so no body got more than their share. LOL Love it. Couldn't remember cooking time, thank you.

10-21-2017, 10:28 AM

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We used Sweeten Condensed Milk, not evaporated milk.

10-21-2017, 02:03 PM

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Jan in VA

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This Yummy substance is the base for the glorious Butterscotch pie served at O'Charley's. I tried it and was scared to death the can would explode, but all was well.

Jan in VA

<address>1 (9 inch) pie shell, baked</address><address>1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk</address><address>3/4 cup brown sugar</address><address>1/4 cup cornstarch</address><address>3 egg yolks, (Keep whites for meringue)</address><address>1 teaspoon vanilla extract</address><address>1/2 teaspoon salt</address><address>2 tablespoons margarine or butter</address><address> </address><address>Bake crust and let cool. In a pot on top of the stove mix milk, sugar, cornstarch, egg yolks, vanilla and salt with a whisk. Add butter in one piece. Cook on medium high heat for 5 to 7 minutes until butter melts and mixture thickens. Stir constantly because this will burn easily. Once thickened, remove from heat and pour into pie crust.</address><address> </address><address>
Meringue</address><address>3 egg whites</address><address>1/4 cup sugar</address><address>1 teaspoon vanilla extract</address><address>Start beating egg whites, adding sugar while beating. Add vanilla and continue until peaks are formed. Spread on pie covering entire pie. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven until brown on top or place under broiler to brown. </address>

Well, in my Grammie fatigue, I guess I can't even keep a simple recipe straight. (Little Quinn is having a bad tummy day, perhaps related to his first vaccinations). I Promise you I made this pie with canned sweetened Coindensed milk -- not evaporates -- and I did boil it in the can as others have advised.

I guess until I finally get home in February (please God) no one should rely on anything I say! (I am so tired most of the time, all I can do is feed little Quinn and rock him to sleep. I get up at 4a.m. for the bottle, and again at 8a.m. I try to hold him for an hour long+ nap in the afternoon so Mommy can get some sleep as she does not sleep deeply at night with him at bedside making his little noises all night. Her anxiety will not allow her to put him in his own room and, as he is still having the occasional silent reflux filling his mouth and nose, I can understand her panic.)

Jan in VA

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10-21-2017, 04:57 PM

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One of my mother's favorites. But why waste the time and energy (electricity or gas) when you can buy it already done. It's called Dulce de Leche. Spanish for candy of milk.

10-22-2017, 05:38 PM

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I place the unopened can in a pot of boiling water, cook n a rolling boil, topTping up water as necessary to keep can covered for 2 hours and take it out let it cool and instant caramel.

This is the way my grandmother made it' Think the reason they do it differently now is because they're afraid it will blow up but, I never really heard of that happening and she made it that way too many times to count with great carmel each time and no "blow up"

10-22-2017, 06:44 PM

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Annaquilts

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You can make it in the microwave.
There are many recipes
http://www.littledairyontheprairie.c...wave-caramels/

12-21-2017, 12:22 PM

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Hi everyone! We have an old family recipe where we boil the sweetened condensed milk in water for 4 hours. One day I went upstairs for something and BOOM! Yep the can blew up and trust me, you do not ever want that to happen. I was scrubbing carmel off the ceiling and everything else for months. It went everywhere.

Believe it or not I still do make it, funny how my MIL always said 4 hours, so that's what I do. This is what we do.

LeRoy's Pie
Boil Sweetened Condensed milk for 4 hours. Let cool.
Bake a pie crust. Put 2 sliced bananas in the pie crust and then take the carmel out of the can and put on top.
That's it! Enjoy!

The bananas make the carmel not so sweet and is just a perfect combination.