dairy products
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Always Buy Both Canned Milks
Canned milk is a minefield. Even if you know the difference between sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk, it is startlingly easy to purchase the wrong one. Don’t get me wrong: I love them both. Sweetened condensed milk makes an excellent caramel sauce (in your slow cooker or Instant Pot), an easy batch of fudge,…
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You Need Spoon Cake This Summer
The best cake topping is whipped cream. It’s light, delicate, mildly sweet, and works with everything from angel food cake to double chocolate mousse. Glazes, frostings, and cream cheese icings are all great, but whipped cream is the greatest. It highlights the star components while adding richness and moisture, without detracting with overwhelming, cloying sweetness.
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The Right Way to Freeze Milk and Heavy Cream
I’m one of those sickos who will drink a tall, cold glass of whole milk just for the taste. It’s probably the most perverted aspect of my personality — and the competition is stiff! — and definitely the whitest thing about me. I come from one of those families that serves milk to the children…
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An Ode to Ambrosia, the Salad You Make With Cool Whip
My now ex-husband met his first ambrosia salad at a buffet in Aberdeen, Mississippi, after Sunday school at my grandparent’s church. He’d grown up in Virginia and Florida, two states that can be — but aren’t always — captial-S Southern. His father lived near DC and his mother, who had converted to Judaism when he…