Covered jar with saucer, What was this used for?

Cluttered is correct, evaporated milk is the proper term. Carnation still makes it. My uncle used to pour it from the can onto his cereal if I remember correctly. It was what they call "shelf stable" so you didn't have to worry about it spoiling. My great uncle Charlie would have grown up before refrigeration was common. I think he was just used to it.

I agree that it's hobbyist painted on a Hutschenreuter blank. A lot of Hutschenreuter white ware must have been imported since it seems to have been a popular blank for hobbyists.
Don

 

Hi Clutteredcloset,
It was used for both. Evaporated milk was used for coffee and tea and making baby formula. Condensed was used for both but again used for baking mostly except for those who had a 'sweet tooth". I remember my Gram punching a couple of holes in condensed milk and boiling the can in water in a pan until it caramelized. Used it a homemade pudding. I used it a lot in making snow ice cream for my nephews. Take a large bowl of fresh snow stir in the condensed milk until it made a thick sludge. The kids loved it.
greg

 

So does PET.
We still take it camping.

 

That's what my Dad always used in his coffee....Evap....

 

Yups, used for both evaporated and condensed. Ma used to spread the latter on bread.

That caramel is best made by not punching holes in the tin!

 

Not sure I would boil today's cans. They're lined with a plastic coating. Old tin cans were lined with zinc.

 

I think you would put evap in a creamer, wouldn't you, instead of spooning it from a can?

 

Ah, but even now, cans are treated to boiling point for the purposes of preservation. Google on dulce de leche, you'll see!

 

It's what we call "confiture de lait" in my region, but we don't use that in tee or coffee.

 

Dummy me never thought about putting the container in the holder. I was thinking you would just pour it into the holder DUH! No wonder my kitchen is such a mess!

 

You didn't spoon it, you poured it.

 

Yep, I got in trouble with mom for telling guests, go easy on the sugar, it's rationed.

 

haven't had condensed milk in ages but they still use it in kopitiams (local for coffee shops). and yes i remember it on bread
didn't know it comes in a tube these days
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Here in Switzerland condensed milk is sold in big tubes since I can remember but for sugar cooking things, when i was a child I take the tube to eat directly and you can imagine what think my mother if she see it.

 

Hi,
Europe started to use tubes for things since metal was so scarce. When I went to Denmark in the early 70s I was looking for coffee and found plastic bricks instead of cans. It was so strange to see mayonnaise in tubes instead of jars etc. When I was growing up everything came in a glass jar or a metal can.
greg

 

ah

glass jars or metal cans: me too

 

It wasn't scarceness of metal, it was freight costs and cheapness of manufacture. Tetrapaks, invented in Sweden were a revolution: they allowed for far simpler and lighter packaging.

 

I suppose you could use it for either, but I think 'condensed' would be more common. Condensed milk has a massive concentration of added sugar, which acts as a preservative (counter-intuitive to my mind) that allows for shelf storage. My grandfather used it in his tea all the time. I'll bet my grandmother had this kind of server, which would have held the can, but I honestly can't remember.

 

We may have had tin cans during the War, but they went right back home again after emptying. I remember my grandfather, smooshing abosolutely flat, rows of Campbell's soup cans.

The practice should have been kept up afterward.

 

I have looked up Tetra Paks. I am not much enlightened.

At least thy have nothing to do with fish...