3352  Dulce de leche in Europe

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 11:15:22 +0200
From: SOSA IUDICISSA Marcelo <MSosa@EUROPARL.EU.INT>
Subject: Re: Dulce de leche in Europe

Ann,
Last year the French supermarket chain "Auchan" organised a huge special event with Argentine foodstuffs; everything was sold out. Since then, =
you should be able to find 1 or 2 different brands of dulce de leche in any "Auchan" supermarket (in Spain they do business with the name =
"Alcampo").
This Sunday we have the first Spring party of "argies" (argentinos), in Brussels for asado, empanadas, and the whole lot. I will prepare =
Panqueques con Dulce de Leche for 100 people...
Cheers,
Marcelo

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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 10:34:55 -0400
From: Marianne Hansen <mhansen@BRYNMAWR.EDU>
Subject: dulce de leche

Hi, Ann,

Dulce de leche is sweetened milk cooked for a long time to boil off the
water and brown the milk solids. You can find recipes on the web (search
dulce de leche recipe in your favorite search engine). The traditional
method can be found here, for example:
https://www.rapidcityjournal.com/recipes/articlearc.php?id3

The commonly used "at-home" method today is to boil an unopened can of
sweetened condensed milk. This is so common that in the US the companies
that produce the milk print on the label that you must not heat it
unopened, to protect themselves from lawsuits. In fact, it is pretty safe,
if you keep the can covered with water. I have done it, but used a
pressure cooker, to speed up the process and because I felt pretty good
about safety - even if the can blew up, inside the pressure cooker it
couldn't injure me! Here is one recipe for this method:
https://www.milk.com/recipes/dessert/dulce-de-leche.html

You might be able to find it in stores that cater to a South American
clientele. If it comes from Mexico, it will be labelled cajeta. This is
Mexican Spanish for all sorts of sweets that are made by boiling things
down to a thick paste and which have traditionally been packed in wooden
boxes - dulce de leche, quince paste and all other fruit pastes, etc. You
may find a couple of flavored dulces de leche from Mexico, including one
with wine (envinada). One word of warning, though: the word cajeta, which
is absolutely harmless in Mexico, is a vulgarity in Argentina. You may
want to ascertain where the person you are talking to is from before using it.

Kind regards,
Marianne Hansen

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:02:45 +0200
From: ann levy <levy.ann@WANADOO.FR>
Subject: Dulce de Leche

Hi,
Just a short note to thank all those who sent me recipes for DL. This
was the first time I ever posted a message, and I was touched by the
response.
There were some interesting variations which may take some time to test
(due to calorie count!!). When I come up with the ultima concoction,
I'll post it.
Thanks again, Ann