Alton Brown's Dulce de Leche
Try This Sweet and Easy Classic
This recipe is taken from "Good Eats 3: The Later Years" by Alton Brown. You can purchase the cookbook here for more of the delicious science inspired recipes.
Ingredients
Cooking Directions
Combine the milk, sugar, and vanilla bean and seeds in a 4-quart saucepan and place over medium heat. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved.
Once the sugar has dissolved, add the baking soda and stir to combine. Reduce the heat to low and cook, uncovered, at a bare simmer. Stir occasionally, but do not reincorporate the foam that appears on the top of the mixture. Continue to cook for 1 hour.
Remove the vanilla bean after 1 hour and continue to cook until the mixture is a dark caramel color and has reduced to about 1 cup, 11/2 to 2 hours. Strain the mixture through a fine-mesh strainer. Store in the refrigerator in an airtight container for up to a month.
Excerpted from Good Eats 3: The Later Years by Alton Brown. Excerpted by permission of Stewart, Tabori & Chang.
