Condensing Liquids

[Chief Longwind Of The North]

I'm just curious if this can be done with liquids other than apple wine and alcoholic drinks. I know that if you take apple wine, and partially freeze it, you can then strain out the ice, thereby concentrating the alcohol. If you do this a few times, you get applejack, a very potent alcoholic beverage. The same thing can be done with a pre-mixed screwdriver.

I now that if you partially freeze whole milk, ice crystals, or shards form in the milk. If you strain the milk through a fine mesh sieve, I'm thinking you could be making condensed milk. I don't know how far you could condense the milk with this method, but it might be an interesting experiment.

I'm just thinking out loud.

Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North

 

[Cooking Goddess]

Ages ago I read that this method could be used to make maple syrup. It was in a Mother Earth News magazine, and Mother wouldn't lie. ?

 

[taxlady]

You need a liquid where the stuff you want freezes at a much lower temperature than water, so the the water can be separated that way. I don't know, but I don't think it would work with milk. My fridge is quite cold and occasionally freezes the milk. The shards that form in the milk look like frozen milk, not like water.

 

[CWS4322]

Condensed is sweetened milk with the water removed. To make it, you need to add sugar and the cook it so the water evaporates. I doubt freezing it would result in the same product.