Re: Extra Milk Question - 101 uses?

June 23, 2000

At 04:07 PM 6/23/00 -0400, you wrote:

>What should I do with all the extra milk I have?

Freeze them in little ice cube trays (Tupperware makes a four-cube tray

with animal faces on them that holds 1.5 ounces) and give them to Dean for

a hot afternoon treat, to resolve teething discomfort, to play with, etc...

Use it as a substitute for cow's milk in your cooking... makes wonderful

bread in the bread machine... My older kids loved it in pudding! I know

one mother who used her own milk for her whole family's cooking, as most of

them were allergic or intolerant to cow's milk!

Try making soap with it -- I'm sure someone here has a recipe!! It should

be gentle enough for you to use in Dean's baths, too.

Make butter with it -- skim off the cream and put it in a small jar with

and shake it for about 15 mins. Pour off the liquid, seal it with the lid,

and shake it some more. Repeat until it firms up more. Finally, pour it

into a small mold and refrigerate. It's a great spread for baby's

snacks! (Instead of the jar, I used my bread machine... lol)

Save your milk and plan to use it later (especially if you have some that

you think may be " too old " to give to Dean) for wound healing. You can use

it on skin abrasions, diaper rashes, stuffy noses, congested eyes/pink

eye... I swear by my own home tests that my own milk was more effective at

healing skin abrasions (concrete meets forehead) than bacitracin or neosporin!!

Something else that just came to mind... remember painting sugar cookies as

a child? We used evaporated milk with food coloring to make " paint " that

we brushed on cookies. Perhaps when Dean gets interested in solids later,

you could make arrowroot cookies and paint them, and have some serious

home-made healthy snacks!

Even milk " older " than what guidelines suggest for feeding babies is still

useful in my book!

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