Thanks! It was intact.

Kathy

I agree, it's safe indefinitely, but the quality may leave something to be desired.

Let us know how the pie was!

Annie

Personally, once I saw that the milk had changed colour and noticed the expiration date, I wouldn't have continued.

Even if I wasn't concerned about it having gone bad, I would be concerned about the quality of the finished produce. Not something I would serve to my family or to guests.

Keeping my fingers crossed for you that your pie tastes great.

Ann

The pies turned out fine. They taste right also.
And I have not keeled over................yet.

I doubled the recipe, so,theoretically, each pie got only 1/2 of that can.

Kathy

If it was regular evaporated milk, I don't know. But sweetened condensed milk, as in Eagle brand, does get caramel colored as it sits around. Eagle says it is just fine if colored.

It was cooked, so likely any bad guys just cooked away.

I'm from an era when expiration dates were not found on canned goods, or other things for that matter, that I remember. I had some canned emergency foods stored and when I went to give some away I noted they had expired, even though I didn't consider them that old. DD told me that the food bank wouldn't even take them, that they toss out all cans with expired dates. Well, DH is having to eat more canned food than he normally would. I can't find anything wrong with them, a few months should not cause harm. The only cans I used to toss were those that looked like they bulged or had dents or if the product didn't look right. From now on, I'll have to stick to dehydrated foods for emergency food.

Kathy:
Glad your pies turned out good. I have a few cans about 2 years old.
Glad you tested them.Now I can use mine.lol!!!

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The GI's in Korea were eating rations from WW2.

Colour and Flavour stayed the same. Not too good.

LOU

They were eating those WWII and Korea rations in Vietnam. In fact, my DH preferred them. The food was better than the "modern" rations.

Carol

Lou ~ you are welcome!

Terra ~ I, too, am from "an era when expiration dates were not found on canned goods". I wasn't really too worried, but thought I would check.

I assumed the milk had seperated from sitting for so long.

I let my beloved oldest grandson eat pie. He says this is his favorite holiday. Pumpkin pie is his favorite. I always bake him his own pie.
This time last year he was flying combat missions over Afganistan.
So thankful he is home.

Plantmaven:
That is really something to be Thankful for.
I know how you feel.

My Grandson was in the Submarine Service for 8 years.
Went on 6 Cruises.
He left the service and is now going to NYU .
If he has any spare time,? he is going to be a Snowboard Instructor, at Jiminy Peak Ski Resort.

In one way I'm glad to see him home and trying to advance himself but
at the same time, I hated to see him leave the Navy.

Hope you had the best Thanksgiving !!!
Lou

Reading Lady :
Never made it to Vietnam. Don't know how or what they had to eat then.

The guys really enjoyed the Thanksgiving and Christmas, Turkey Dinners, we made for them.
They came with all the trimmings and Dessert.
Clover Leaf Dinner Rolls , Pies, Etc.

I went home soon after that.
LOU

Carol, Uncle Marty came home from his second tour of duty in Vietnam with some of the old K-rations. The peanut butter was actually pretty good.

Elery's son, Chris, was in Kosovo and got wounded there. He said the MREs were horrible, that K-rations HAD to be better.

But anyway, expiration dates on canned food items do not mean that the item is spoiled, much of it is safe indefinitely. Is it good? Well, that's another question because quality will deteriorate over time.

Annie

Commercial MRE's are good to keep as emergency food because they last so long. People tell me they taste good now.

After we cleaned up from having dessert and I started to get rid of the remainder of my canned evaporated milk I noticed it was curdled we've already eaten the desert are we going to be sick from the curdled evaporated milk

Nope.....

I agree with Lindac, I believe you'll be fine. As I said, it's more often a quality issue than a safety issue.

Annie

DATES on food items... bit of a pet peeve for me. meats (beef, chicken, pork, seafood) has sell-by date. if sell-by date is today, that shouldn't mean it's a bio-hazard tomorrow? then there's a best-by date. in most cases i find that date to be a mere suggestion. often have a few bottles of different salad dressings in my "pantry". in my experience, vinegar-based dressings last "forever". ones with a creamy base (like ranch, Russian, blue cheese) can get a stale taste if they hang around too long... doubt they'd "kill" ya??

If you read carefully, it usually says 'best by' on canned items. That is not an expiration date, but signifies that taste/texture may be less than ideal. Canned items do tend to last for quite some time.

http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/best-enjoyed-by/

"...Over the years we’ve lost track of what these labels meant in the first place. We’ve come to associate the dates with safety, when in fact, they’ve always been about freshness. As much as we might want them to, the dates on our food are not going to tell us if we’ll get salmonella or e-coli.

Most date labels are arrived at by conducting taste tests. Does a product still taste good on day 4? Day 5?

And yet today, according to a report that Emily Broad-Leib co-authored, a majority of consumers believe that eating food past it’s sell-by or use-by date is a risk to their health. And as many as 90% of Americans throw out food based on date labels at least occasionally...."