evaporated milk

American  

noun

evaporated milks plural

1. unsweetened milk thickened and concentrated by evaporation of water content to approximately half the original weight and then sterilized and canned.

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evaporated milk British  

noun

1. thick unsweetened tinned milk from which some of the water has been evaporated

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• evaporated milks
  plural

Etymology

Origin of evaporated milk

First recorded in 1865–70

Example Sentences

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evaporated milk

In the case of this recipe, that’s evaporated milk, sweetened condensed milk and heavy whipping cream.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023

Traditionally, you use canned evaporated milk along with butter, brown sugar, and a little vanilla to make caramel, but I make mine with coconut milk.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2022

Infants were fed with homemade formula recipes provided by pediatricians—such as a mix of water, evaporated milk, and corn syrup—as recently as the 1960s.

From Slate ● May 19, 2022

For his version of that bread pudding, Mr. Martinez mixes the toasted bread with a sauce of unsweetened evaporated milk, butter, brown sugar, Abuelita hot chocolate and cappuccino mix.

From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022

In another cupboard are a box of tea bags, Peek Freans shortbread biscuits, a five- pound bag of sugar that has not been poured into a bowl, a tin of evaporated milk.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri