Homemade Organic Sweetened Condensed Milk (No Refined Sugar)
Homemade organic sweetened condensed milk is easy to make, takes only 2 ingredients (and time) to make, and contains no refined sugar. It's deeply caramelized flavor is a delicious bonus!
Combine the milk and palm sugar in a heavy-bottomed sauce pan.
Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Be careful it doesn't boil over.
Adjust heat to medium low to keep the milk at a very low boil/high simmer.
Reduce the weight by 25%-40%, and you'll have a lovely sweetened condensed milk. Your final weight will be between 22.8 oz (at 40%) and 28.5 oz (at 25%).
Reduce by 60% by weight. Your final weight of your mixture should be 15.2oz. (See Notes)
Please See Notes for a few more specifics.
Notes
You can scale this recipe up or down, keeping the ratio of 1 oz palm sugar to 5.3 oz milk. Base as written is 32 oz milk to 6 oz palm sugar. Occasionally pour/scrape the simmering milk mixture into a heat proof container on a scale you've zeroed out. You're looking for the final weight of the sweetened condensed milk to be 40% of the original weight, or 15.2 oz.If you're going to use this as an ice cream sauce or in your coffee, you can certainly stop the reduction at any point once the sweetened condensed milk has thickened up some. If you're going to use it to make no-churn ice cream, go ahead and reduce it all the way. If you leave too much water in the mixture, your ice cream will set up too firmly and could possibly develop an icy texture.