American vs. Canadian measurement advice please.

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emtd

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In Canada evaporated milk is sold in a 354 ml tin ( 1 1/2 cups)

Is that the same in the US?

I am remaking these Choco brownies of Wigs and the second part says add the rest of the tin of milk (after using 1/3 cup).

Honestly how many questions can I possibly have regarding boxed brownies smileys/smile.gif

Thanks

Betty

 
Hi missy...Nestle's Carnation Evaporated Milk is 12 oz (1.5 C) in standard size.

I don't know if they STILL make it, but they used to produce a small squat 5 oz can....the raison d'etre for my Dyslexic Chocolate sauce. (On the chocolate sauce recipes I was trying out, I just saw 'can of evaporated milk' and IMMEDIATELY used the large can. That wasn't what the recipe called for and many, many, many adjustments had to be made to make an edible product out of it.)

I haven't made wigs version, but I seem to recall NOT using a full can with the KYN brownies (the version using dry cake mix). Just checked and the original KYN recipe from the Colorado ski resort calls for:

1/3 cup + 1/2 cup evaporated milk-divided--
1/3 C for cake mix, then 1/2 C for caramels.

that would be less than 1.5 C (or 12 oz)

 
I'm here! Yes, Nestle's makes both a 5-oz size & a 12-oz can size of its Carnation Evaporated

milk product. (See link below.)

The original recipe for the Choco-Caramel Brownies from my BAR COOKIE BONANZA booklet called for a 5-oz can of evaporated milk--you added 1/3 cup of the 5-oz can to the caramels when you melted them, and the remainder of the 5-oz can went into the dry cake & butter mixture before beating it.

My mother would REPEATEDLY grab a large-sized 12-oz can of evaporated milk and then insist my recipe was WRONG because she put 1/3 cup of the LARGE can in with the caramels and the remainder of her 12-oz can(!!!!)into the cake mix & butter combination prior to mixing so I rewrote the recipe and gave it to her with NO reference to can size and that she should simply add 1/3 cup evaporated milk to the butter & dry cake mix and another 1/3 cup evaporated milk to the caramels when she melted them over water in a double boiler.

Problem solved. (I recognize that is not a 100% accurate measurement since 1/3 cup = 2.666666 oz., but it was close enough so that Elaine Wiggins' Turtle Brownies would come out okay and I was no longer accused of giving her an inaccurate recipe! ha!)

https://www.verybestbaking.com/products/3804/carnation/nestle-carnation-evaporated-milk/

 
Betty--Sorry! Just use 1/3 cup evaporated milk in each of the 2 parts of the recipe, i.e.,

put 1/3 cup in with the caramels when you melt them and add another 1/3 cup of evaporated milk to with the dry cake mike & melted butter when you mix all that together. A more detailed explanation is given above as to how all this came about.

 
Thank you - I ended up using it all and they turned out pretty good.

Perhaps a bit more cakey - but I'll make a note of the corrected amounts. Somehow the very first time I made these - they were delicious - and I had used Ghiradelli brownie mix. I just can't remember exactly what I did.
I'm now using the cake mix you suggest as well as your cooking time.
I appreciate your help as well as Marilyn's.

Thanks ladies.

Betty

 
3 words - Dyslexic Chocolate Sauce

Dave's Hot Fudge was made with smaller 5 oz can of evaporated milk smileys/wink.gif Colleen

 
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