Nestles Condensed Milk Cans

School children on excursions to the Nestle factory would be told “make sure you take this home to your mother’ when they were given a sample tin of condensed milk. It is unlikely that many of those samples reached home, as the delicious sweetness would be too tempting for most children. Condensed milk is made through a process of evaporation and re-constitution with the addition of sugar. Tinned, or in metal tubes, the sweet milk did not deteriorate and was sent in wooden boxes on the train from Waroona to markets in Australia and overseas. Thousands of tins were sent to troops in the Second World war. The Sydney-based Nestles built