
I just got a bunch of limes today and I was wondering what to make with them... I googled up "lime recipes" and a ton of pie recipes popped up. I'm not feeling pie right now. Maybe I could turn the filling into a pudding, but lime pudding calls for condensed milk, which I don't have. But how do you MAKE condensed milk? With stuff I do have -- and I can use Splenda to boot. After a lot of improvising, this is what I came up with:
- boiling water (boil 3-4 cups to be safe)
- 1 stick of butter
- 2 cups Splenda
- 4 cups powdered milk
- a splash of vanilla or almond extract
- juice of 5-6 fresh limes
- zest of 1 limes
- Juice the limes ahead of time. I used 4 limes and it didn't turn out as limey as I had hoped.
- Cut up the stick of butter, put it in a blender with the Splenda, 1 cup boiling water and the extract. Mix well.
- Mix in the powdered milk one cup at a time. The mixture thickens fast, so you might have to add a little more water. You want the consistency of pudding as the blender is mixing. It sets a little when it's not mixing, so don't wait too long for the next step...
- ...in fact, just keep the blender on low. Add in the lime zest and lime juice, which may cause the mixture to curdle a little bit. If that happens, turn the mixer on higher. If it still doesn't mix well, stop the blender and mix it with a spoon until it's a little more homogeneous and start the blender again. In the end, it should look like pudding.
- Put the mixture in a bowl.
- Now the "brulée" part of the recipe is optional -- I did it just to show off. Turn the oven to broil and put the (oven-safe) bowl in. Keep a close eye on it! It burns fast. When it's a little brown, like crème brulée, pull it out of the oven.
- Let it cool to room temperature. Cover it with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge.
- Enjoy it!
It probably would've been better with store-bought condensed milk and cream, maybe eggs... Let's just say it's not my greatest recipe, but it's still tasty. I promised myself I'd post even the so-so recipes, and this is the first one of them. How can you make it better?