As price of milk falls, crack open a bottle and try these four affordable dairy dishes
THE price of milk is starting to fall, with both Sainsbury’s and Tesco cutting the cost of a pint to 90p from 95p.
Other supermarkets are following suit, but there’s a way to go until it reaches the 52p average it was a year ago.
Milk is a key ingredient in many great value dishes, so crack open a bottle and make these cheap eats.
SAY CHEESE: With a spoonful of flour, a chunk of butter, a block of Cheddar and a pint of milk you can make an easy cheesy sauce that can give a real boost to a pasta dish.
Use it to create a lasagne, or for cheaper meals, simply pour it over penne, peas and ham, or make a speedy macaroni dish.
This sauce can be made most easily by putting butter, flour and milk in a pan and whisking constantly while it warms and thickens, then stirring in grated cheese.
FLIPPING FANTASTIC: If you’ve few eggs knocking about, you can combine them with flour and milk to make a stack of cheap and easy pancakes.
For a savoury meal, fill them with chicken and broccoli and some of that cheesy sauce.
Or treat the family to a weekend brunch, topping your pancakes with syrup and frozen berries.
PERFECT PUDS: Creamy rice pudding is so easy to make.
Just buy pudding rice (£1.20 at Tesco) and follow the recipe at realfood.tesco.com.
Bread and butter pudding is also a cinch and uses up leftover bread and eggs at the same time.
Try the recipe at skintdad.co.uk/bread-butter-pudding-slow-cooker.
LET BATTER COMMENCE: Transform a bottle of milk into the best home-made batter, perfect for making an economical toad in the hole with pork or vegetarian sausages.
There’s an easy idea in the recipes at groceries.morrisons.com.
Or whip up Yorkshire puddings and top them with an easy cottage pie filling.
Pour on some gravy and you will have a winning dish.
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