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 ...

Dear Lisa: What is the purpose for scalding milk before using it in a recipe? Is it absolutely necessary? I don't have a thermometer for checking the temperature. -- Linda C. Dear Linda: Many old ...

: Scalding has two primary purposes: to kill pathogenic microorganisms and to destroy certain enzymes that would keep emulsifying agents in the milk from doing their thickening job. Since those two ...

Scalded milk is an ingredient that often appears in older recipe books. Because of its association with times past, many ...