Milk bottle tops

I'd forgotten about the Christmas tops. It was so exciting when they appeared because Christmas was close. Our milk sat next the the radiator and the cream floated to the surface.

Not a great fan of milk now but happily drank it as a child.

Winter at my school meant frozen toilets though....well they were outside lol. But frozen toilets were really cold on little bottoms lol.

Yes and my brother and I lined the cardboard ones up against the wall in the hall and played Skimmers. He always beat me.

Did you ever smoke the straws?

Nutritional vitamins and minerals in condensed milk = good.

I'm not quite sure if that's good or bad bagitha

Here's some more 'justification' for you yoga, should you feel the need of it :

Vitamins

Vitamin A817IU16%
Retinol223mcg 
Retinol Activity Equivalent226mcg 
Beta Carotene42.8mcg 
Vitamin C8.0mg13%
Vitamin E (Alpha Tocopherol)0.5mg2%
Vitamin K1.8mcg2%
Thiamin0.3mg18%
Riboflavin1.3mg75%
Niacin0.6mg3%
Vitamin B60.2mg8%
Folate33.7mcg8%
Food Folate33.7mcg 
Dietary Folate Equivalents33.7mcg 
Vitamin B121.3mcg22%
Pantothenic Acid2.3mg23%
Choline273mg 

Minerals

Calcium869mg87%
Iron0.6mg3%
Magnesium79.5mg20%
Phosphorus774mg77%
Potassium1135mg32%
Sodium389mg16%
Zinc2.9mg19%
Selenium45.3mcg65%

That's the best news of the day, might have some on the apple and frangipane tart that I plan to make for pudding

Yep. Thought so. Sugar content of condensed milk is about 65%. Sugar content of most jams is similar and often higher. The milk will have other nutritious content as well.

I'm going to stick my neck out again that condensed milk is probably no "worse" than jam on your bread. At a guess (I'll do some research in a minute when my neck's out of reach), I'd say the sugar content is probably similar.

I use it in a date cake that has no other added sugar. The condensed milk, that is, not jam.

I also made Christmas decorations from the coloured foil tops but pressed over a thimble and strung together with cotton.

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Oooh Geraldine - you didn't throw that half tin away did you? I would have had it! Are you going to let us have the recipe for that cake, sounds good (especially if you have half a tin left over afterwards!)

Milk of Magnesia was (is?) white and slightly minty. When my sister was a young GP, a young mum told her she had found a great new form of milk. You've guessed it - she was feeding her poor baby Milk of Magnesia!

Nsube, I loved Dinnefords Magnesia, but what we had was clear, not milk of magnesia (what`s magnesia anyway?). If it was gripe water it didn`t taste like the stuff I gave my kids, it was lovely.

Condensed milk (sweetened) and evaporated milk (unsweetened) are used in quite a lot of classic recipes – the former in Boston Banoffee Pie and the latter in Kulfi (Indian ice cream), for example.

Philips Milk of Magnesia and Milk of Magnesia toothpaste, as far as I remember. Oh and there were Milk of Magnesia tablets which my mother made us chew. Horrible! Gripe water was still around 40 years ago and my kids loved it - apparently it had alcohol in it.

Dinnefords was gripe water but I believe they also produced milk of magnesia.

Yes I remember vile Virol and the cod liver oil both totally disgusting, and something called dinnifords. No idea what that was about. But I also remember collecting rose hips for syrup and picking the young shoots of nettles for nettle soup and young sorrel for 'omelette a le cure' (can't do accents on this thing) mother was French.

Isn't it wonderful (and typical of us) that a thread that started with milk bottle tops has migrated to fridges? My parents acquired a Rayburn solid fuel cooker in the '50s and had to buy a fridge to keep perishables cold! Said fridge lasted over 40 years.

We had a gas fridge on legs, could never understand how a gas fridge could possibly keep things cold

yogagran you are posh if you had a fridge to keep your opened condensed milk in. I did not get a fridge until 1969.

I still love condensed milk...but try not to buy it!
We used it like jam on bread, lovely.

One Christmas I had a whole tin in my stocking, also a tin of sardines - I ate both of them on Xmas morning, and guess what, I was sick.........

I hate condensed milk, but when I had my first baby there was a table on the side of the tin for making babies bottles up, so she was weaned onto condensed milk, and loved it, but it didn`t work for baby number 2, she kept throwing it back at me, so I gave up, never used it again after that.

Sorry - thought the 'pooter had frozen up and pressed the "post" button twice in desperation