topic Re: Powdered Milk in Kitchen

Powdered Milk

coffee drinker — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:22:15 GMT

Before I bought a bread maker, I bought powdered milk to use in the recipes. In the past, I believe powdered milk was used. To my surprise, it really isn't used that much using a bread machine. Now I have a canister of powdered milk, no bread machine because I returned it and have no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions???

Re: Powdered Milk

Kachina624 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:50:49 GMT

Mix it up and use it anytime a recipe calls for milk. When I was growing up my frugal mom mixed whole milk half and half with powered milk and we drank it. It tasted best 24 hours after mixing. After sitting a day, it was indistinguishable from our usual milk.

I use Almond milk for most of my needs but occasionally it doesn't work in a recipe so I keep some powdered milk to use instead.

Use it to mix up batches of nonfat yogurt.

Re: Powdered Milk

Jo1313 — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 22:49:34 GMT

I use a teaspoon ( for my taste) of powdered milk in every cup of my coffee.I used to use regular powdered coffee-mate. I rarely use refrigerated milk..it goes bad before I use it up.

Re: Powdered Milk

RollTide2008 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:14:36 GMT

If you haven’t opened it, a food pantry would love to have it.

Re: Powdered Milk

Caffeina — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 01:43:22 GMT

@coffee drinker

Try this basic white bread recipe. It's delicious, and my husband said it's the best bread I've made.

I used bread flour, not white flour, and medium crust setting.

Re: Powdered Milk

RedTop — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 02:21:10 GMT

@Kachina624

Between dad and my brothers drinking a lot of milk, mom would mix a gallon of store bought milk with a gallon of powdered milk to give 2 gallons of milk in the fridge. There were no complaints about taste.

Re: Powdered Milk

Kachina624 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 03:48:35 GMT

@RedTop That's exactly what my mom did. Remember Sanalac Dry Milk? We thought it was so much better than others. Wonder what happened to it?

Re: Powdered Milk

RedTop — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 04:01:00 GMT

@Kachina624

I've never heard of Sanalac; Mom bought Kroger or Carnation brand back then.

She also used the powdered milk to make cook and serve pudding for us, including banana pudding, and for milk gravy. We usually had the largest box the store carried.

Re: Powdered Milk

HLP — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:19:13 GMT

@coffee drinker wrote:
Before I bought a bread maker, I bought powdered milk to use in the recipes. In the past, I believe powdered milk was used. To my surprise, it really isn't used that much using a bread machine. Now I have a canister of powdered milk, no bread machine because I returned it and have no idea what to do with it. Any suggestions???

I also had a bread machine that called for powdered milk, that was 15 years ago, I now have a different machine and you can use regular milk. I made up the rest of the powdered milk and used it in recipes that called for milk.

Re: Powdered Milk

coffee drinker — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:52:25 GMT

@Caffeina Thanks for posting the recipe, I'm sure someone will use it, but I returned the bread machine.

Re: Powdered Milk

shoptilyadropagain — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 12:56:59 GMT

I've never been fond of milk and don't drink it so I buy the powdered milk and mix it up as needed. I don't really have recipes that call for it or anything but I do use it for mashed potatoes and when I eat a bowl of cereal (which is once or twice a year).

I've also purchased it for our church's food pantry. I had never thought about buying it for the food pantry but I was reading a list of really useful things that food pantries can really use and that was on the list.

Re: Powdered Milk

lynnie61 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 23:03:40 GMT

I remember my mom making it (not sure she mixed with real milk). It was not good. I can’t remember why because we had a milk man and milk delivered. This was mid-late sixties. Now I’m curious. Haven’t thought of powdered milk forever. Is it in the baking aisle at the grocery store?

Re: Powdered Milk

RedTop — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:11:51 GMT

@lynnie61

In my grocery store, yes, the powdered milk is near the canned evaporated milk and sweetened condensed milk in the baking aisle.

Re: Powdered Milk

Mom2Dogs — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:18:38 GMT

@coffee drinker Growing up we drank a lot of milk...5 kids in the family. Mom would buy whole milk and mix powered milk with the whole milk.

I don't remember the ratio of dry milk with water, that she added to the whole milk, but we did not know the difference.

Re: Powdered Milk

Melzie — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 14:47:02 GMT

Sanalac is still around. I googled it out of curiousity and found it at Walmart and Amazon, among other chains.

Re: Powdered Milk

lynnie61 — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 23:35:31 GMT

@RedTop Thank you. I had to ask my dad today why would we have had that. He didn’t recall it, and my sister didn’t either, but my dad said maybe she tried it trying to save money. He said I know your mom didn’t give me powdered milk. I remember it, but maybe she did try it, but made it alone vs mixing it. We loved milk and I know I didn’t like that. He said she could have had a coupon. Who knows.

Pretty funny, she was raised on a dairy farm. Can’t even think why she thought to get that. She could have tried it once or twice. Not sure. I still love milk.