- Whole Milk, 2% Milk, 1% Milk OR Skim Milk (Fat free):Substitute 1½ cups milk for one 12-oz. can (1½ cups) CARNATION evaporated milk. Nestlé Kitchens recommends mixing 1 tablespoon cornstarch with the granulated sugar and spices. Prepare pie as directed. These milks will produce acceptable results, but the pie textures will be softer than a pie made with evaporated milk. However, the cornstarch will aide in firming it up. These pies will also have a slightly more pronounced cinnamon, ginger, and clove flavor.
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In the absence of evaporated milk, one option is to take some dry milk and reconstitute it using only 40% of the recommended water. That would give you the right texture. It is difficult to find dry whole milk (because the fat in it tends to spoil and so should be refrigerated), so you would most likely be using dry nonfat milk, which would cause some adjustment in flavor.
Or you could take a page from Southern cooks and use buttermilk, which is often used in the breading process for fried chicken. It has the thick texture to help the coating adhere and certainly gives a boost to the flavor, although it might be more on the tart side, where evaporated milk leans towards sweetness.
You can also use some cream instead of evaporated milk, although you might find that too rich.
If you have a little time, though, you can easily reduce a quantity of milk by half or more. Put it in a pan on the stove, bring it to a simmer, and let it reduce. A wide-mouth pan such as a saucier will allow more surface area for faster evaporation. Keep the milk below the boil, to keep it from curdling, and make sure it doesn't scorch on the bottom of the pan, or you'll have a tough time scrubbing it off.
First answer, if you happen to have sweetened condinsed milk use it, but reduce the ammount of sugar since you will be getting this in the sweetened milk. Answer number two, get as wide and shalow a pan as you can and place this on your range. I am guessing that you are being asked for 8 ounces of evaporated milk so you will be starting off with 20 ounces of 2% whole milk. Slowly reduce this over low heat not letting it come to a boil, do this at a bare simmer. Stir regulary as the lactoce in the milk will stick and burn easily in the bottom of the pan. In 15 to 20 minutes you will have reduced the volume a bit over 1/2 (60% is a given figure for commerical evap milk). You now have your home made evaporated milk. Note that this will deacavate some of the enzymes in the milk so in some remote cases this could behave in subtly different ways than vaccum evaporation used in commercial processes.
You can use sweetened condensed milk if you cut out the sugar in the rest of the recipe. I prefer no additional sugar, but some like to add a bit more. Can also use cream or half and half.
light cream or half and half
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Evaporated milk is what gives pumpkin pie its creamy texture and helps to form the consistency. If not enough milk is added, the pie will not be as smooth, the cooking time should be less, and the pie will be more dry.
pumpkin, oven, pie pan, spices, evaporated milk, eggs, piecrust
No. Regular milk contains more than twice the water of evaporated milk, and will likely result in a very sloppy pie. You should be able to use a thick mix of powdered milk, or perhaps even condensed milk, but this will contain sugar.
I wasn't able to find any information for any pre-made Libby's pumpkin pie. The back of the can of Libby's pumpkin pie filling says to add eggs and evaporated milk.
If the can is not rusted, swollen or leaking, it might be safe. But the flavor may have deteriorated. Don't ruin your pumpkin pie. Get a fresh can of evaporated milk.
Ingredients * 1 cup pumpkin puree * 1 (1 ounce) package instant sugar-free vanilla pudding mix * 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice * 1 cup evaporated skim milk * 1 cup skim milk directions # In a mixing bowl, combine the pumpkin puree, vanilla pudding mix, pumpkin pie spice, evaporated milk and skim milk. Blend together until smooth; place in parfait glasses and chill until set.
Pumpkin pie filling is made by combining pumpkin puree with evaporated milk, sugar, eggs and spices.
There are a million pumpkin pie recipes, however they usually share these common ingredients. The ingredients that are usual in a pumpkin pie are pumpkin puree, sugar, salt, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, all purpose flour, eggs, undiluted evaporated milk, water, vanilla extract, and of course pie crust.
Unrefrigerated pumpkin pie isn't safe because it has eggs and milk in it.
I would try it, freezing a pudding pie works well and makes it more solid and that includes regular milk and evaporated milk might turn out the same way.
A good vegan dessert recipe would be a simple pumpkin spice bread and you could replace milk with the soy milk for no dairy either. This would be sweet and meat and dairy free, therefore making it vegan.