What Is Sweet Milk?
Bev from South Bend, In
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RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
My husband asked the same question while looking through his mother's old PA cookbook, given the age of the cook book I surely thought that it was a termed used for what we know today as whole milk. When I googled 'sweet milk' I found I was right. It's just regular whole milk. Just as one prior post said, nothing more, nothing less.
Post By Donna (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
I've got the answer. Regular milk is heated to kill bacterias. Sweet milk/ acidophilus milk is not processed the same (it contains live cultures). In Iowa (where my mother is from) this milk is in your dairy section (with a pink cap). www.bluebunny.com This is awesome for females, as I was very tired of eating yogurt. I don't think it's for sale in the South, but you could ask your store manager to order a few bottles and hold for you?
I just wrote Blue Bunny. I didn't see milk differences on their web site. Hope this helps. But, regular vitamin D (red cap), and reduced (Blue cap) are not the same. Should you find a pink cap. Read it and if it says contains live cultures. You have found it. Hope this helps. Have a great Holiday.
Post By Heather (Guest Post)
RE: how do you make sour milk
Add about a teaspoon or more of white vinegar to about a cup of milk and then add it to your recipe.
I use sour milk to make my mom's banana bread recipe.
Post By dawn (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
In the 1930's and 40's the country was coming out of the "Depression". We had no extras, frills, fancy names, just staples, like sugar, flour, salt, pinto beans, peanut butter, syrup, corn meal that you bought in town.You only went to town once a month, sometimes longer between. You bought huge quantities. You raised a hog, chickens, and a cow as well as a garden for your vegetables. Vegetables were canned to eat during the year when winter time came and you could not grow vegetables, The cow provided milk which was used for drinking and cooking, chickens provided eggs for eating and baking, and the hog to eat your table scraps and other feed to fatten up, kill hog in the fall to have bacon, ham, and the rest for food for the year. To preserve the hog meat you had to use sugar cure to preserve it.(No refrigeration).Fresh sweet whole milk had to sit at room temperature for several hours and the cream came to the top. You skimmed that cream off the top and churned the cream. That separated the butter fat from the milk to make real home butter. What was left with flecks of butter in it was buttermilk. So the term sweet milk referred to milk just milked from the cow. It had the butterfat and all in it. After churning and getting the butter out, it had turned sour and made buttermilk. So the term sweet milk was just the whole milk before any processing had occurred,then it became sour/ buttermilk. That is the way I learned it. That is why several mentioned their mother or granny used the term sweet milk. From a 75 year old granny. -:_) oredwine1933 Fort Worth Texas
Post by oredwine1933
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I joined this site just because this answer was here! :-)
Plus...it looked like a pretty cool place. Nice to know that "sweet milk" is plain old whole milk. Sure does make it easier at the grocery store. Now I can make that pound cake recipe that I just got. :-)
Post by kris_1651
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As far as I know, sweet milk is Manjar, aka Dulce de Leche.
Its a recepie from SouthAmerica. Argentina if I'm not mistaken.
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Manjar ... ce-de-Leche-from-Scratch/Detail.aspx
you can also get Manjar by boiling a sealed condensed milk can.
But there is a question of timing and water quantity which if you get them wrong it can explode, so be sure to find detailed info before boiling it.
There is also a Manjar appreciation society in facebook, where you can find several ways to get manjar and recepies with manjar.
have a nice life
:)
Post By Isabel (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Sweet milk is whole milk, nothing more, nothing less. This term has carried over from before when dairy products werent so readily available to the consumer. It was used to help people differentiate regular milk and buttermilk, as it has a sweeter taste to it than buttermilk.
Post By Matt (Guest Post)
how do you make sour milk
how do you make sour milk
Post By wanda peck (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Thank heaven for GOOGLE. Having a over supple of pumpkins I decide to make Pumpkin Pie, among a plethora of other goodies. My trusty CWA Cook book (West Australian cooks bible)was once again hauled out, and there the recipe called for "sweet milk". My 85 yr young Aunt didn't know what it was, so luckily I opted for plain milk, and thought if it wasn't sweet enough just add some more sugar. After making the Pie, I then decided to look up the internet, and it seems I guessed the right thing. The Pie, by the way was delish.
Post By Merri (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
It is regular milk. To differentiate between buttermilk and fresh milk the term sweet milk was used. Assume whole milk, not one of the lower fat varieties.
Post By Skeet (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
we call it "dulce de leche" i'm argentine, and sweetmilk is an argentinian product... it was first made by accident when someone let their milk too long on the fire...
is basicly milk and melting sugar... we use it for cakes
Post by nachoman
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I am so happy I found this. My mother past away this last weekend and I am trying to baked her favorite cake for my father. It call for "Sour" milk but it starts out with "sweet" milk. I can now make her famous cake!!! What would we do without our mothers??
Crystal
Post By Enter your name. (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
I just found a recipe for doughnuts of my mothers probably from the 40's. It calls for milk (sweet) - written out just like that in the recipe. It definitely is not Buttermilk as the next section of the same recipe says 'doughnuts with buttermilk'.
Post By Gary. (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
In days gone by, many people didn't have good refrigeration and milk soured quite easily. There was "sweet milk," "sour milk," and "buttermilk." Sweet milk was just that; milk that had not yet soured. That would be what we call milk that is still good, I suppose.
Post By Rosie (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
funny my dad said sweet milk is butter milk
Post by sandy63
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Sweet milk is regular white milk as opposed to buttermilk. I'm from Tennessee and old timers still use that term.
Post By Susan (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Sweet milk is what my grandmother called homogenized milk.
Post By Kaye Morris (Guest Post)
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Ha...we moved south 10 yrs. ago. To my delight we had snow one day. Yes, all of 1" , oh wow. We were only here a couple wks. at the time.Well, down here they panic. I called my neighbor to see if she needed anything as I was running to the grocery store. She asked me to get her "sweet milk". Oh gee, here I am new to the south and I had no idea what the heck she wanted. I feared of getting the wrong thing for my new friend and neighbor.Luckily, there was a nice lady in the dairy dept. that told me it is just plain milk. ~ Holly in Ga.
Post by HolJen
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I am "old" and southern - sweet milk is just plain old milk vrs 2% & skim....cj in camas
Post by cjjones
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I am 70 and grew up at a time when many folk, myself included, drank buttermilk. Sweet milk is just regular milk and at that time was called sweet milk to set it apart from buttermilk.
Post by MartyD
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Years ago many recipes called for 'sour' milk. So regular milk was refered to as 'sweet' milk.
If your recipe (especially bread recipes) calls for 'sweet' milk you can use reg. whole milk, 2% milk, water with powdered milk or powdered buttermilk.
If making bisquick biscuits you can ever use just plain water - found out by accident (no milk) that they come out lighter that way.
If you have an old recipe that calls for sour milk, just take a cup of milk(or the amount called for in your recipe) and add about 1 or 2 teasp. of vinegar, let sit a few min.or so, stir and you have sour milk. or use buttermilk.
Post by tejas
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
hi bev, sweet milk is what we old folks in tn. call whole milk. it is what i grew up calling it. by the way im only 45 lol. but that is what my granny used to call it and my kids think im crazy when i call it that. have a great day!
Post by sandyb125
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Perfumed Fan again, Bev. Maybe I should have explained: whole milk, because of it's higher fat content, will give baked goods a richness and a softness that 2% milk won't. 2% milk really isn't good for cooking or baking, just for drinking and putting on cereal and stuff like that. Buttermilk is excellent for baking, though. It will give a chewy texture.
Post by perfume and powder
RE: What Is Sweet Milk?
Sweet milk is whole milk as opposed to 2%(skim)milk or buttermilk.
Post by perfume and powder
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