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Ingredients
- 1 quart whole milk
- 12 ounces sugar, approximately 1 1/2 cups
- 1 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Directions
Combine the milk, sugar, vanilla bean and seeds in a large, 4-quart saucepan and place over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved. Once the sugar has dissolved, add the baking soda and stir to combine. Reduce the heat to low and cook uncovered at a bare simmer. Stir occasionally, but do not re-incorporate the foam that appears on the top of the mixture. Continue to cook for 1 hour. Remove the vanilla bean after 1 hour and continue to cook until the mixture is a dark caramel color and has reduced to about 1 cup, approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer. Store in the refrigerator in a sealed container for up to a month.
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By somethingsometh...
on January 23, 2012
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3 hours of my life wasted, I have done SO many of Altons other recipes with great results but this was a total disaster! If you have looked up Dulce recipes, just do the one on the can, WHAT A WASTE!
By njnjlco
on December 08, 2011
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I worked on this for over 2 hours and it is very gritty and really thick.. could not strain it at all.... i actually opened an account, just so i could put my opinion in!!! Not smooth and not tasty.
By hippeastrum
Inland Empire, CA
on September 21, 2011
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Loved it! I made 2 quarts worth with 1 cup of sugar and about 1 cup of granulated splenda. I figured the splenda would be sweeter when it reduced (which it was, so I didn't do a strict doubling of the sugar. At the end after straining, I tasted the milk solids and noticed they tasted similar to some paneer-based indian sweets. I mixed in some grated coconut and then rolled small balls of it in some more grated coconut (unsweetened of course to make an impromptu coconut ball sweet. Yum!
As for the dulce de leche, so far I've used it in place of sweetener for coffee, but I hope to be more creative in the future. I'd say it took me around 2 - 2.5 hours to reduce it down enough. I WILL be making this again, and I'm going to try to play with the splenda ratios to make it more splenda and less sugar. Thanks!
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