It sounds gross, but with a scarcity of fresh dairy I have been playing with the long life variety with some success.

I guess reconstituted powdered milk could substitute fresh milk in most or all recipes including pancakes and the like.

For me, I have had a lot of encouragement making my own yoghurt. Surprisingly it actually tastes great. And another step is to add some peppercorns or dried fruit and hang it in the fridge in cheesecloth to remove the whey, and the final product is a nice "soft cheese".

Any other ideas?

Home made ginger beer is next on the bucket list but it can wait for now.

On 28/07/2017 at 6:27 PM, sipi said:

For me, I have had a lot of encouragement making my own yoghurt. Surprisingly it actually tastes great.

Of course, commercial yoghurt contains milk powder to increase the level of solids.

safe to say that all supermarket milk in Thailand comes from milk powder, fresh milk only lasts 2 - 3 days and the local stuff is good for 2 weeks in the fridge...

 

I also make yogurt from the supermarket stuff (using a tsp of the ready made sweet stuff in the yogurt maker) and it always tastes good by itself or in sauces for salads and steamed veges, excellent with olive oil, garlic and diced fresh cukes...can also be used as a substitute for sour cream in chicken paprika, goulash, and etc...always use full fat milk...

 

 

18 minutes ago, tutsiwarrior said:

safe to say that all supermarket milk in Thailand comes from milk powder, fresh milk only lasts 2 - 3 days and the local stuff is good for 2 weeks in the fridge...

 

Once again the vile calumny that milk in Thailand is made from powder raises its sickly head.  It simply is not true.  Thailand produces over 1 million tonnes of fresh milk a year (2015) and is so successful that it exports to neighbouring countries.

 

Source:  http://ap.fftc.agnet.org/ap_db.php?id=730

 

The reason the milk lasts well is because of very high standards of hygiene in production and efficient, temperature controlled distribution.

 

The idea of fresh milk lasting only 2-3 days goes back to my childhood in the UK, more than half a century ago, when milk, extracted with dubious cleanliness, was put into churns at the roadside to be picked up hours later for processing and distribution.

in the UK the pint delivered from the milk float man in the am never useta last more than a couple of days and I take that as my point of reference...hard to believe that UK standards of hygiene and etc could be in anyway substandard...

 

the article indicates substantial local production of milk but a lot of that goes to the school milk program...can we assume that what we buy at tescos is fresh milk? 'milk products' is what's mentioned mostly in the article...

 

but, not to belabor the point...whatever the source, fresh or powdered, the homade plain yogurt turns out a treat...

 

 

double post...

17 hours ago, tutsiwarrior said:

in the UK the pint delivered from the milk float man in the am never useta last more than a couple of days and I take that as my point of reference...hard to believe that UK standards of hygiene and etc could be in anyway substandard...

 

Pasteurized vs unpasteurized. And yes, the morning milk man with unpasteurized (or "raw") milk is substandard with today's understanding of food safety.

 

https://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm079516.htm

 

Sam