Amazing Powdered Milk

The Amazing Powdered Milk

 

When most people think of powdered milk they think, yuk! Powdered milk can be a blessing if you know how to use it best. How many times have you started a recipe and found out it called for 2 cups of milk and when you looked in the fridge that is all you have and if you use it in the recipe then you will not have enough milk for your cereal the next morning. That is when milk powder comes to the rescue! Just take the powder milk and add cold water and presto you have enough for the recipe and still have your milk for the next morning’s cereal. Milk Powder is one of the earliest forms of convenience foods.

 

And since I live in an area that you can, and often do, get snowed in, powder milk is so great to have around when the weather is bad and you can’t get to the store. There is a way to make powdered milk that if you don’t let the kids know its milk powder they won’t guess. The night before make up 1 or 2 gallons by using WARM water instead of cold, this makes the powder dissolve easier. Stick it in the fridge over night. Then in the morning add chocolate or strawberry to the milk and the kids won’t know the difference. When you make hot chocolate you can use powdered milk and then add some flavored creamer, such as pumpkin which can be powder also to the hot chocolate and see if the kids or you can tell the difference.

 

There is a difference in the texture of powdered milk. If you get the kind that is very fine powder it is harder to get it to dissolve in cold water. There is a kind that the particles are larger, I prefer that kind as it is faster to mix. But if you use the method of using warm water to make it, it does not matter as much. Try both kinds and see what your preference is.

 

To store powdered milk the ideal is to put in #10 cans, however, if you don’t have access to a canner, then store in clean dry 2 liter pop or juice bottles [PETE]. If you don’t have that then put in zip lock bags and store in plastic buckets that you can get at the big box stores in the paint section, you don’t have to worry about food grade because the milk is in the bags and not touching the sides of the plastic.

 

The price of milk keeps going up. In Canada when they started the nation wide health care the price of milk went up to $5.00 way back in 1995. So when our Obama Care gets going the price will probably go up that way as well. So, for your family especially if you have children store some powdered milk. You can just get 1 box a week and start putting it up in whatever you decide. By using it in cooking you will save enough to get a box a week. Then start getting the strawberry and chocolate flavorings for the milk and the flavorings for coffee if you like.

 

I like to add it to cream of _____soup to make it richer. It also goes good in breads, cakes and other such. Start with ‘normal’ stuff like all that and then experiment. Remember we Prepare to Survive and Thrive.

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