Evaporated milk

Here are the pics from Tesco to help you in the store...

The one in the middle is the evaporated milk.. they also do a light version which is like our low fat or no fat.  What might be confusing is that the evap can looks a lot like our sweet cond can in the USA.

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I cheated and googled

Condensed milk could be a generic term for milk that has had 60% of its water removed by evaporation. With sweetened condensed milk, great quantities of sugar were added first, accounting for 40% to 45% of the total volume before evaporation. Once all that water is removed, it is a very sticky and very sweet mixture.

Unsweetened condensed milk, however, is simply called evaporated milk, at least in this country, and comes in whole, lowfat and skim versions.

i'm confused! i just looked at the nestle website and they own carnation and fussell which makes it even more confusing!

Hee hee....love the corporate life...everyone owns everyone else.

Basically if you are making a pumpkin pie like the ones on the back of the US tins you need to buy evaporated milk. It is not sweet. It's the middle on in the picture.

If you are making fudge or any other baking recipe calling for sweetened condensed milk use the top and bottom cans I showed.

thanks! i AM going to give pumpkin pie a try this year

Hey I had a British friend put me to shame by making a pumpkin pie from scratch! She boiled the pumpkin and baked it and everything!

I told her that where I hail from, we just pop open a can..

Pebbles, pumpkin pie is easy! You'll have no problem...