While sorting through Grandma’s recipe box you found a baking recipe that instructs you to “scald” the milk. That sounds like extra work, but this is baking after all, so you drag a pan to the ...

All recipes come with highs and lows and the lows are almost always those semi-complicated or drawn-out steps you'd rather skip. If your next recipe calls for a cup or two of scalded milk, before you ...

Scalded milk is an ingredient that often appears in older recipe books. Because of its association with times past, many cooks today may skip the scald, thinking that it's a holdover from the days ...

Scald milk. Mix sugar, flour and salt. Add enough hot milk to sugar-flour mixture to make a thin paste. Stir paste into hot milk. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture thickens ...