Name: Condensed Milk
Ingredients: 1 pint water; 2 tablespoons Mellin’s Food; 2 tablespoons condensed milk

Condensed Milk

Ingredients

1 pint water
2 tablespoons Mellin’s Food
2 tablespoons condensed milk

Directions

Boil the water and let it cool slightly.
Dissolve the Mellin’s Food and condensed milk in the water.
Feed the mixture to the baby.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Condensed milk: Adds sweetness and richness, and carries most of the milk nutrition in the mixture.
Mellin’s food: A dry malted-flour base that adds carbohydrate and sweetness to the liquid.

The step that matters

Dissolve the Mellin’s Food and condensed milk in the water. Stir until both dissolve fully so no dry clumps remain. Undissolved powder can stay lumpy and uneven in strength, and the water should be cooled slightly first so it does not scald or alter the mixture.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.