What I love is that so many people from all over the world know this from their relatives. It may have a different name but same great taste and unleashes magical memories.
When the war was on ...I was a very small child....I am 81 now......I particularly remember the Condensed Milk because we were always being scolded for " Laying on it " an expresion that my parents used back then .....I remember lots of people collecting tin cans for the war effort and lots of people talking about buying war bonds. Many things were rationed then...as a matter of fact I still have my ration book old and fragile as it is .Each member of the family received one I also remember seeing small fabric stars hanging in peoples windows showing how many children they had in the war......oh yes Sweetened Condensed Milk brings back many memories...some good and some not so good !...Carmine
Carmine Curcerello I’m 83, from San Antonio, Texas where the Air Force bases and Army bade are. We would be out playing and a squadron of B26 fighter plane would pass overhead. My sister and I would stand still until we saw the star under each wing...sweeten condense milk was the base for fudge!!!
Oh, the memories 😘! We were visiting family on another continent , after a 20 year gap, and the spread my cousin laid on for us was just awesome! My brother 55, burst into tears☺and said grace,. It was extremely emotional! a It's a fact that food evokes empathy in us all.😘😘
Carmine Curcerello I was born in Scotland in 1950 in a rural village. I still have Christening Robe with Utility Mark on it. It's as good as the day it was made. I could be wrong, but rationing was still done in UK until 1952/53. Condensed Milk. I daren't buy a tin, I would eat it with a spoon, yum yum. Being diagnosed Bordering Diabetic age 24, kept fainting, Homemade Scottish Fudge I made didn't help. Had to stop making it. I daren't have Icing Sugar in my home either. I've been careful all these years, do have an odd traybake or small piece of cake, not interested unless it's homemade, I've always cooked from fresh, only tins of various beans and Pulse in Larder, frozen peas, sweetcorn frozen whilst fresh, vegetarian except, occasional battered fish, fresh fish cooked in a light batter from Village Grill, 2.5mls away, I'm glad, temptation would be difficult if I lived in the Village! Every Friday evening we queued up, all 6 of us to get weekly ration of 1 tsp Cox Liver Oil, 1 tsp Syrup of Figs, 1tsp of thick Orange juice, could never fathom why my younger brother queued twice! Occasionally 1tsp of Malt. After that, got a paper bag with sweets my Dad bought a couple of pounds worth, divided Equally. Mine always lasted to the Thursday evening unless my brother found them. His lasted a day if he was lucky. The rest never got past Tuesday. Tried to eat when siblings weren't around as Dad told me off, I was baffled, I saved mine, made them last. They ate all theirs, then looked everywhere for mine. Brother used to find them until I found the best place of all, My Mother, she felt it was unfair I got chastised when I saved mine! The things Mums did for us, haha....
You're the same age as my Dad and he has it on bread. Also he used to eat Lard sandwiches and us kids would say yuk, how can you eat that Dad and he would say "What you kids need is a good war, you're all spoilt!"
When u make something from scratch and with love and u try to share it, people will talk negative but yet they will go to the store and buy all kinds of shit full of chemicals and feed it to their kids and that’s ok. Thank u very much for sharing this. I ate this as a kid but never knew thats how It was made.
I am going to have to try this now as it looks yummy. My 'naughty' habit is to eat condensed sweetened milk straight out of the tin with a spoon. I love the stuff x Thank you for the tutorial x
SandraOnFire Lloyd I wouldn't do that any more. Condensed milk is full of saturated fat, a lot of sugar (bad carbohydrates) and the salt is not low. Not a very healthy thing to put in your body.
Sweetened Condensed milk and I are very old friends......when I was a kid during World War 2......We used to sweeten and creme our coffee tea or oatmeal with Sweetened Condensed Milk because sugar was rationed........just a bit of trivia to add to the peacetime candy recipe .Carmine
Carmine Curcerello ... How well I remember loving condensed milk in coffee, when I was nine or ten. I don't use sugar in my coffee or tea, just milk, but it tasted so good with the condensed milk when I was a child.
It's amazing reading the comments how this simple recipe is known to so many different countries and generations. Also, how with just a pinch of this or that people can this make this their own unique creation. It seems like this makes a lot of people very nostalgic, so many memories of this sweet as a respite during hard times.
@@freedomforever1962 We didn't. We could not cook anything in cooking lessons, because we could never get the ingredients. Rationing didn't completely finish until 1952. I'm still like a child when I go to a sweet shop.
I'm from Ghana and nobody can tell me otherwise, for those at the back saying it's nasty, this is how WE make our condensed milk toffee even some people will grate a little nutmeg in it for flavor, in other world caramelized or fudge candies, every kid or grown-up will tell you, we sell it in the market, school grounds, Sunday schools etc etc
Nana, my youngest daughter was in Ghana a few times for work. She works with students to do exchanges with universities all over the world. It gives students, who otherwise might not be able to afford it, the opportunity to go for a year to a University in another country. Anyway, she loves Ghana and it's people and had good friends there. After every trip she would bring me gifts, a beautiful, typical Ghanaen outfit, baskets and always the wonderful toffee which was individually wrapped in wax paper. God bless the hands that prepared them!
@Nana Serwaa Akyeampim There are always people who make rude remarks about the new or unfamiliar. I can only conclude their mothers didn't bother to teach them basic courtesy. They embarrass themselves but I think they are too ignorant to realize that.
Wanda Williams Sprinkle a little powdered cocoa in it and it will taste like tootsie rolls. Sometimes I add a little milk if I think it is going to be too hard. Regardless how soft or hard my grandchildren eat every bit of it.
Here in Scotland UK we add butter and vanilla extract to the condensed milk in a deep thick based pan bring it to a rolling boil and once it starts to get to the caramel colour, we take it off the heat a beat it like billyoh. Takes a good 8 minutes or so of beating, has to be with a wooden spoon.When the mixture starts to go grainy/sugary granules and setting around edges of pan, pour it onto a lightly greased shallow baking tin and leave to set. Unfortunately due to Arthritis I can no longer beat anything any longer, I mean this in the nicest possible way lol. Lots of love from me Scotland xxx
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I could open a can and eat it all with a spoon. So could my daughter. I may try some in the can tomorrow. I have 4 cans in my pantry. When they poured it out of the can and didn't clean it out with a spatula, It really made me want to get my hands on that can. I don't leave 1 speck in my cans. Lol
I pour a can of condensed milk A bag of peanut butter chips and a tablespoon of peanut butter Cook it down till it sticks to itself Then pour out fudge!!!
My mother used canned Evaporated milk for formula when we were babies (mixed with water). Someone mentioned using Condensed milk for formula too. My husband (86) and I (78) both use computers, and we both love the ice cream I make several times a week using Eagle Brand milk (sweetened condensed milk), sugar, cream, milk and vanilla. I freeze it in the freezer in an aluminum pan. Made in the morning, it's ready by evening. Much easier than using an ice cream freezer of either the old fashioned kind or the new fashioned counter top kind.In an aluminum or glass mixing bowl, stir 3/4 cup sugar, 2 cups whipping cream, 1 cup 2% or whole milk, 1 can Eagle Brand milk (or its equivalent) and 1/2 tsp vanilla. Stir until the sugar is dissolved. Cover with Stretch and Seal and put in freezer for several hours - 6 to 7 hours. Deelicious!
U had me at oil and a can of sweet condensed milk! Who doesn't love SIMPLE?! I'm sure you can easily build of this base with chocolate dipping and or adding nuts etc.
is that what she poured in the pan at the start? oil? looked like she cooked it a while. I almost thought it was sugar bc it got brown before she poured the milk in.
I love the creativity! I would never have thought to cook sweetened condensed milk like this, but it makes delicious looking caramel candy! Thank you for sharing!
I never knew you could make candy from condensed milk! Awesome! I’ve actually boiled an unopened can, when you open it....it’s a delicious caramel sauce for pies, cakes and ice cream. Thanks for sharing, I’m definitely gonna try this.
Never thought you could do this but thanks! Ive got to try this 😀 An update : I have done this twice. The first time, I tried mixing chocolate in it near the end but it didn’t turn out well at all . The chocolate doesn’t work with it. It turns the whole thing into a big mountain of crumbs. I highly advise never to do that. Second time I did it again without chocolate and it turned out wonderful!!! So delicious! My family loves it too much and wishes to have it often. I’ll see about that because it does take a lot of time and patience for me, unless I can get another person to take turns in mixing with me! Thanks for the idea 💡 one more thing, use butter and coconut oil instead of plain oil. Adds more flavor 🙂
Isca S you know, that just might be the only way. Still it can’t be mixed into chocolate so it would only be chocolate covered. I didn’t think of that but thanks. I may try that 😉
You can try mixing in several teaspoons of cocoa powder at the beginning of process. This should do the trick, and add more taste and delightful bitterness to this super sweet recipe.
R Saleh The way she taught, it made the consistency like...dried caramel? It’s chewy, but “melts” like a butter mint would I guess. They’re definitely not “hard” if cooked slowly. That’s the key-slow and low!!! Mannnnn!!!! That’s a heck of a question lol It never occurred that I’d have to describe it some day LoL
I don’t know if you’ve heard of Cliff Richard, he’ was a very big celebrity in the U.K., he’s getting on a bit now! I knew one of his biggest fans, she always went to his yearly pre Christmas concerts, and she always took his birthday present with her (I don’t know when his birthday is) which was a tin of sweetened condensed milk and a loaf of bread, so he could make, as they’re called in the U.K. conny onny butties. I’ve never been in the least interested in them, my favourite sweet treat is golden syrup “butties” 😋
I don't want to watch this for 9 minutes if this person is not going to give me more instructions. Like how hot do yo cook, how long to you cook it, etc. Can you give me more info other than the ingredients and how much of each???
Thank you! I have been searching how these candies where made. Ate them when we were young in South and Central America. I knew from the taste it had to be dulce de leche based. Now I am happy, thank you.🥰🤗
Imagine this with coconut oil and coconut condensed milk. Yumm. And flavouring is endless if you use an oil based flavouring. Damn now I want to make this. Thank you for the video
@@cookiefrances1383 did you see her putting some egg yolks in the video?😂Dang.. Check the description below the video and the engridients said were only cooking oil, and condensed milk. So it's a yema, not dulce de leche. Dulce de leche is cook differently. Duce de leche is boiling the condensed milk inside the can for a long hours.😂😂
I'll bet that's how Werther's Originals are made. Just roll them into little balls and shape them into ovals. Had some chocolate Maybe. That's probably quite delicious
Thanks for the history lesson Carmine. I always wondered why my parents used to serve condense milk in our tea instead of full cream milk. my parents were born around world war two 1930-1040's
This is awesome because I discovered I have a milk allergy and now I can't use condensed milk in cooking or tea (or just a spoon >_>) any more. Thanks for the tip. I can try this recipe now!
Hi @Mavis D. , I'm new to your channel, and I really enjoyed your video. I have a couple of questions. What setting do you have the stove burner on while you're heating the mixture? Also, I noticed you added a small amount of liquid periodically while heating. Was that more oil, or water? Thank you for sharing this! 😊💜
If when you take it off the heat a pull it which it just stretching and folding it over itself it gets air into it and makes a nice texture like taffy ...the way you did it we call Cow Tails which are yummy caramel ropes...I love making this it reminds me of being a kid when there was no money to buy candy from a store !
I'd add a teaspoon of vanilla right before it start to come together. Maybe use butter so it would have a buttery flavor and more of a vanilla caramel.. Just a thought..🤗
Can you give me your recipe with the butter and vanilla. This video had zero instruction and the only ingredient it showed was the can of milk. I'm guessing that clear liquid in the pan was oil? No directions were provided. Maybe it should be simple but I am a direction follower. Yours sounds better.
Lajuana Longoria underneath the post she wrote 2 tablespoons of oil and one can of condensed milk it’s not exactly a difficult recipe to follow it didn’t have more than 2 ingredients so there’s not much to follow pour the oil in pan pour the condensed Milk and stir until it caramelises and comes together and then shape really not that difficult and not something you need a recipe book or step by steps for its common sense
Reminds me a bit of a Brazilian candy I used to make, but that was flavored with chocolate and made into little balls rolled in chocolate sprinkles. I wonder how this would be if you substituted butter for the oil? That sweetened condensed milk is amazing stuff for making sweets. Thanks for sharing
THANK YOU so much for sharing this. Your plate of candy looks amazing. I can't wait to try your recipe and technique.. I love everything made with sweet condensed milk. Very generous of you to share your time and expertise with people who do appreciate it.
I actually remembered earlier that my dad once cooked this for me on a stormy night to distract me from the terrifying thunders and then this vid was on my recommendation thank you!!
All week I've been thinking about making this for the first time for my son but been been to tired lol but my mommy used to make this for us cause we were poor so she get a of this and bam her kids had 🍬😢 rip mommy 💔
They are long caramels in vanilla and chocolate ones, too and they have this cream center that is really neat because they cream is cool when you bite into it and makes a good foil for the caramel. The reason they are called cow tails is because they are long and round like cows' tails.
Have you ever tried adding condensed milk to sugar toffee?? Eg: White Sugar + Water let sugar dissolve then add condensed milk? I haven’t but am keen on trying a small batch to see what becomes of it.
Merry Christmas from Canada. Every year I try to find a new recipe to try for Christmas and this year I was stumped until I stumbled on your video. Even better, it doesn't look too complicated. THANK YOU!
That is very cool. I bet they're like a creamy toffee- they look lovely!! Thanks for sharing your technique, as this is not any way I have ever made a caramel-like sweet before. It's awesome to see how things are done differently to how I have done it before, thanks for sharing it!
🇬🇧 Made by my Mum in war time. Sacrifice half pound of butter, 2 lbs sugar, tin of condensed milk, rinse tin with hot water and add to pan. Stir for ever until drops from the wooden spoon onto a plate set. Beat it like hell and add some vanilla essence then pour out into half inch flat trays and leave until part set then cut lines across into squares and hide it from the kids. You can also add nuts, raisins and maybe some crushed popcorn. Delicious.
Hello. Now, why did you go and make me want to make this? Looks super good. Thank you so much for showing this candy. I hope you have a super day, but be careful doing it.
I know that’s some good caramel candy. I used to cook mine in a double boiler. I’d put on the top of a cheesecake, freeze the cheesecake and then cover with Magic She’ll Chocolate. Oh and I added pecans.
I watched all the stirring going on...Am 70+ yrs of age & grew up in the mid-east. When I was growing up we had canned evaporated milk. Still use it today for making my Potato Soup like my parents did. Ummm. I never knew about sweeten condensed milk until 2009 or so & had no idea what to do with it. Now I do & am tempted to try this.💕
How good would that be with coconut and/or pecans? Maybe peanuts or cashews would be delish too. I wonder if you could replace the veg oil with coconut oil.
I love it, Thanks for making this video. I could almost smell the aroma of the hot condensed milk as it kept reducing. I also loved all the stories shared of WWII recipes, of somebody making it in Africa, and the people making their version. Your shared stories warms the heart and makes me visualize that era of sweet simple innocence, people gathered in the kitchen, Grandmas and Moms in their aprons, and homemade desserts, simple cooking. Longing for those loving memories. Thank you.
In Philippines we called it yema we sell it for 1 peso only and it taste good when u add peanuts. For those asking what oil he used well all kinds of oil is fine.
