Milk is used to make cheese, pancakes, cream, yoghurt, pudding, ice cream, sour cream, whey, butter, condensed milk, chocolate, buttermilk, kefir and quark. Milk is also often used in cakes. But milk is even more versatile and has numerous applications in the kitchen and household.

Milk in the kitchen
Frozen fish tastes fresher if you put it in a milk bath to thaw.
Maize cooked in milk gives the maize kernels a sweeter taste.

Milk in the household
Cracked porcelain can often be mended with milk. Place the porcelain in a pan with milk and bring to the boil. After boiling, simmer on low heat for 45 minutes. The milk protein binds fine hairline cracks.
Hands soiled with lubricating oil and garden soil can be made clean again with a paste of milk and oatmeal.
For ink stains on clothes, you can soak the fabrics in milk overnight and then wash them in the machine as usual.
Dulled silverware shines again after a half-hour bath in sour milk.
Rubbing milk into leather shoes makes the leather soft and shiny again.
The leaves of rubber trees are made shiny by wiping them individually with milk.

Milk for body care
Milk can be used as a substitute for shaving foam.
Milk helps against sunburn.
A paste made of milk, flour and salt soothes the itching of insect bites.
Rubbing the skin with milk three times a day makes it supple again even in winter.
A paste of milk and flour works as a make-up remover. Wash off thoroughly afterwards, of course.
A cup of milk in the bath water is good for the skin and makes the bath less slippery.
Unpleasant burning caused by stinging nettles is relieved by cold milk compresses.
Milk works well as a massage oil.