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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Place the milk in a large, heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. | 2. Bring to a boil and allow skin to form on top. | 3. Do not stir. | 4. The skin will thicken and puff up. | 5. Reduce heat to medium and remove the skin. | 6. Increase heat to medium-high and repeat the process 3 times. | 7. Add the sugar and vanilla bean, and stir until the sugar has melted, about 2 minutes. | 8. Reduce heat to low and stir in the baking soda. | 9. Simmer milk, stirring often, but taking care not to break the film of cooked milk forming, on the inside of the pan. | 10. Simmer, skimming the foam (not skin) until reduced by half, about 1 hour. | 11. Reduce the heat to very low and simmer for another 3 and 1/2 hours, stirring and skimming foam occasionally. | 12. The mixture will brown as it cooks. | 13. Strain the completely cooked mixture through a sieve into a bowl, cover and refrigerate. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
milk	5	cups		744.2	58.316	38.43	39.894
sugar	1 1/2	cups		1208.97	302.394	0.0	0.0
vanilla bean	1		split	-	-	-	-
baking soda	1	teaspoon		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.