Inoffensive Powdered Milk?
I'd like to be able to give my boyfriend's parents homemade marshmallows and hot chocolate mix as part of their Christmas present. However, I tried Alton's mix recipe last year, and despite the raves I've heard from others that have made it, it was an assault on the tastebuds. The powdered milk had this awful taste, like the smell of spoiled milk, that overpowered everything else.
I'm assuming that since tons of other people have made this & liked it, the kind of powdered milk I used was to blame. Does anyone know what brand I could buy that would actually make tasty hot chocolate?
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4 Comments:
i remember reading in laurel's kitchen that if powdered milk has any smell at all, it is old. i had the same problem with using organic valley powdered milk {per alton's recommendation} in my homemade yogurt, and it was disGUSTing. i had bought it at whole foods, thinking that it would be fresh, but i guess not.
my suggestion would be to try to create a drink mix that didn't contain powdered milk, or to create a mix that you add to milk so that you could leave it out altogether.
cybercita at 8:17PM on 12/15/08
Yeah, honestly, powdered milk makes me sick. Any powdered milk. I would go with cita's suggestion of making a mix that they add milk to, so you don't have to.
nightowl at 1:21AM on 12/16/08
I use Alba or Carbatuib brands in my mixes (hot chocolate; pancake mix, etc) And I use it to add nourishment to things I regularly cook (oatmeal, pudding mixes, soups). It's a great way to add extra calcium into a diet.
SavtaShayna at 3:31PM on 12/16/08
Honestly, we buy a big box of store-brand powdered milk and my kid drinks it straight. I don't notice a smell when I mix it, but I also use purified water to make it (we can't stomach the water from our well-THAT smells).
I've used it to make pudding, ice milk, and I bake with it all the time with excellent results. I do store it in a glass bottle in the fridge because plastic in general picks up odor. I've never added it to a dry mix though, so I can't attest to what it would do when stored with cocoa, etc. I've never been the type to drink a glass of milk though, and I rarely drank it growing up (we ate cheese instead) so it might be that I don't have a bias towards fresh milk.
Some people swear by shoving a used vanilla bean into it like sugar, but that kind of cuts into the cost savings of buying powdered milk. Thankfully, kiddo isn't picky.
Goodythecook at 8:53PM on 12/16/08