Help needed with condensed milk recipe

Can you still buy condensed milk, as opposed to evaporated?

Yees, Jess you can. A lot of Asian sweets contain condensed milk.

I would guess it is about half of one of the current ones. Can you just add it until it looks right?

Yes, Carnation do condensed milk (as well as evaporated) - you can get it in Tesco.

Always think of Winnie the Pooh. Very keen on condensed milk as well as hunny.

Ahh Fussell's that brings back memories, me granny used to put it in her yuck!!

I think the tin was about the size of the current small Carnantion evaporated milk tin.

size of the smallest tin of baked beans?

One of the sins of my childhood was to snaffle a teaspoonful of condensed milk when I went into the pantry.- before we had a frig. Ooh the pantry! .Wish I had one now.

Maybe a bit slimmer than the beans or evap milk.

Any guesses as to actual quantity?

Does anyone else remember trying to get condensed milk out of a tin which just had two holes punched in the lid? Condensed milk was just so thick and sticky it would never come out easily. It was probably just the way my mum did it!
Far too sweet for my tastebuds now!

I think the tins of condensed milk were the same size, and that it was the evap. milk which came in small as well as standard size tins.
I made this recipe today in little glasses for a party. It is so easy and yummy. I used the lighter condensed milk, which tastes just the same to me.
www.carnation.co.uk/pudcasts/200901-quick-mango-fool?section=Recipes&category=CD

Fussells condensed milk was available until about five years ago. It used to be side by side on the shelf with the Carnation brand and both were the same size and I had to make sure I picked up a tin of Fussells and not Carnation because they both looked the same.

Don't know why I preferred Fussells, long ancestral memory I expect, my grandparents always had it in their morning coffee (Ugh!).

Condensed milk is essential if you are making your own banoffee pie.

With a picture of a butterfly on the label!

Thanks all of you for your comments. Mum's recipe is extremely old - at least from the 50/60s and I am sure I remember that there was a smaller size than there is now. Unfortunately the recipe is for 1 tin of condensed milk with no indication of the size.
Like the sound of your recipe shysal - must try it!!
Movedalot - your suggestion is probably what I will do and then I'll have some to finish off!!

gangy5....50/60s extremely old - I was in my prime then! (no offence taken, just making fun of myself). My favourite memory of condensed milk as a child - now that WAS a long while ago - was sneaking into the cupboard when I knew a tin had been opened, and spreading some on a nice piece of brown bread and butter, obviously did not do me too much harm. I later went on to make coconut pyramids with it, but have lost that recipe. We had terrible trouble one time when camping - we had run out of milk and used condensed in our tea. The children could not understand why it had not cooled the tea down, kept us all busy for a few minutes in the pouring rain. (Why can't I get the bold to work?)

When we were kids my mum often made condensed milk tart - just poured a whole tin of condensed milk into a pastry case and baked till top caramelised - wicked.

Wow. Convenience baking. They sell condensed milk in tubes in Tesco I noticed today. I once poured some on my sister's hair when she annoyed me. The only time I did anything like that. It gave her a curl for the only time in her life

The recipe I used was for two tablespoons of Connie onnie(scouse ) to eight ounces of biscuit crumb or even coconut. Connie onnie sandwiches were a Liverpool staple. I think that was a small tin with the butterfly on it.

Mmmm! I love condensed milk..Father Christmas sometimes brought my brothers and me a tube each in our Christmas stockings!!

My younger brother was given evaporated milk (watered down) instead of formula after my mum stopped breast feeding him when we were in E Africa!

Has anyone tried the caramel or chocolate versions? With pre-baked individual or full sized sponge or pastry cases they make an instant dessert. Banoffee pie used to involve boiling a can of condensed milk, but it is no longer necessary.
After yesterday's party where I served mango and rhubarb fools (link in my post above), I have been inundated with requests for the recipe.