Milk rarely goes sour in our house. In fact, we’re almost always saying, “We need to get more milk.” Donnie drinks a glass every morning, and I use a good amount for baking.Nevertheless, every now and then, some of our milk goes “off.” Rather than tossing it, I use it for baking. It’s completely safe, since the bacteria that causes milk to go sour is killed by high oven temperatures. Plus, cakes and muffins made with sour milk are delicious!
My favorite sour milk recipe is for coffee cake. This moist, spicy cake is easy to make, and takes almost no time. It’s scrumptious served warm from the oven, especially with a cup of hot tea!
Sour Milk Coffee Cake
Cake:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Pinch of salt
4 tablespoons cup softened butter
1 beaten egg
1/2 cup sour milk
Streusel topping:
6 teaspoons all-purpose flour
6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
4 tablespoons softened butter
Mix together the dry cake ingredients, then cut in the butter until crumbly.
In another bowl, combine the beaten egg and sour milk. Stir into the dry mixture until batter is just moistened (will be lumpy).
Make the streusel: combine the dry streusel ingredients, then cut in the butter until crumbly.
Spoon half the batter into a 9x9 inch square pan. Sprinkle with half the streusel. Top with the remaining batter, followed by the rest of the streusel.
Bake at 400°F for 15-20 minutes or until golden.
Do you bake with sour milk? What are your favorite recipes? Share in the comments section!
Do you bake with sour milk? What are your favorite recipes? Share in the comments section!
5 comments:
What's sour milk? I'm just kidding - with five kids in the house, milk does not have the opportunity to even give a dirty look much less go sour. Well, okay, unless we get the $8 a half-gallon stuff at Whole Foods just for me to make yogurt with (and the kids are forbidden to drink the liquid gold) - and then, like a dummy, I take too long making said yogurt. THEN milk goes sour. But that only happened once.
The coffe cake sounds terrific - though I'll have to pull the old teaspoon-of-vinegar-in-sweet-milk trick to make it.
I have been warned not to use sour milk. I was told that sour milk is not the same as "sour milk"????
I totally paid the warning no attention. I bake with any milk that has gone bad. I have never gotten sick nor have my children.
Great way to be thrifty. The ice-cream idea is a good one as well.
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I didn't know you could use "bad" milk to bake! Thanks for the tip!
This is a good tip! I am embarrassed that I have been tossing out the sour milk. Not anymore! By the way, I have found that cooking with powdered milk works great and cuts down on the amount of milk I have to buy. Since here in New England milk is what my husband calls "liquid gold" and sells for $4 a gallon, it's nice to not pay that for the milk in baking.
RE: the warning about not useing sour milk--Somehow the notion has spreaad that "sour milk" is not thee same as milk that has gone sour, and that "sour cream" is not cream that has gone sour. I've also heard that milk will rot nowadays before it gets sour. (If milk were rotten, it would be black, not shite and lumpy or separated into greenish whey and milk solids.) All of this is absurd and is the result of people losing the connection between food sources and the food they see in supermarkets. My grandmother's generation often let milk set out overnight to get sour if they wanted to make chocolate cake or biscuits.
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