Receta Baking in Israel? Beware of FAKE condensed milk

If you didn’t know any better – like I didn’t when we first came here – you’d probably assume, with good reason, that both of these tins contained condensed milk: But that’s where you’d be wrong.  Sure, at least at first glance, the Hebrew text is exactly the same: חלב מרוכז וממותק / chalav merukaz umemutak / concentrated sweetened milk.  But the English is different, and therein lies the key difference between the two – the one on the right is FAKE. Here are the ingredients of the real thing (on the left): Milk (55%), sugar (45%).  That’s it.  Pure and simple. Now, here are the ingredients of the one on the right: Ingredients: whey, buttermilk, milk powder, sugar, 8% vegetable fat, stabilizers, emulsifiers, flavour.  Yuck.  Fat? …