Old milk recipes...baked goods and paint recipes

[francesca_tessa]

The milk you buy in the store is supposed to be fresh for at least a few days after it's expiration date. Lately I have found that this is not always the case.

Both K and myself were trying to be frugal and make the milk last the week, and darned if it didn't go sour on us.

I really hate throwing stuff out, and I remembered seeing something about

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[greetpg]

My tomato plants LURVE a foliar feed of diluted sour milk. I started using it a couple years ago, I've never had blossom-end-rot.

[francesca_tessa]

Evidently Rose bushes dig it too, so I'm going to play with that a bit as well.

[pepperbeast]

OK, this I can tell you about. There is nothing inherently unsafe about milk which has soured but not rotted. It's different

If the milk is somewhere between a little sour and completely gluggy (but still white and not unpleasant smelling) it's just fine for baking, etc. One of my friends is horrified that I tip thick, gloppy sour milk into pancakes and scones, but they come out extra-delicious. Milk "soured" with lemon juice is actually a substitute for the naturally-soured stuff.

On the other hand, if the milk smells foul or has developed any colour other than white, throw it away-- it's rotten, not sour.

[francesca_tessa]

So far I've only had one "rotten" milk experience. You look at it and awful smell aside, just the "wrongness" of the color makes all the alarm bells ring in my head. It's definitely a different thing.

And yeah my next plan is scones. All sorts of quick breads cause I'm feeling lazy this week!

sour milk

[julianadeflorey]

I have used sour milk to make cornbread and I didn't die. ;-) But I have found that if it is too blinky it has a bad taste. I think this is due to the culture that's growing -- purchased sour dairy products have controlled cultures as I'm sure you know, and the sour milk is just whatever it picked up. The process of pasteurization kills off some of the natural cultures that would have given it a nice taste. I wonder if you had some good yogurt culture on hand if you could throw it in as soon as you detected the blinky smell if that would help. Hmmm.

rosefood

[julianadeflorey]

I've heard that roses like old grease.

[francesca_tessa]

Never heard that one...I'd worry that it would attract racoons. But I bet it repels insects!