{"id":1241,"date":"2012-03-03T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T05:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2012-03-03T13:27:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T05:27:20","slug":"la-lechera-dulce-de-leche-grocery-outlet-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2012\/03\/la-lechera-dulce-de-leche-grocery-outlet-review\/","title":{"rendered":"La Lechera Dulce de Leche @ Grocery Outlet – Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As an Argentinian I grew up eating dulce de leche<\/em> every day.\u00a0 We ate it on sliced bread and toast and in pastries and cakes of all types.\u00a0 We use it as a topping for flan and, of course, in panqueques<\/em> (crepes).\u00a0 And as an Argentinian I still LOVE dulce de leche.\u00a0 For years, I made the fake kind by boiling cans of condensed milk.\u00a0 Then a bit over a decade ago importation of Argentian products took off and I started being able to get the *real thing*, all the way from Argentina.<\/p>\n

Alas, in recent years the Argentinian economy has been doing relatively well, and the American economy has not, so the peso is relatively strong now against the dollar.\u00a0 This means that authentic Argentine dulce de leche is pretty expensive,\u00a0 about $10 for a 1.5lb jar at Los Angeles Latino supermarkets (where I usually get it, as it’s cheaper over there).\u00a0 Needless to say, I don’t get it much.<\/p>\n

For that reason I was thrilled to find La Lachera Dulce De Leche<\/a>\"\" at only $2lb (at the San Leandro Grocery Outlet).\u00a0 I compared the ingredients with those in regular dulce de leche and they’re pretty close (milk and sugar) – though La Lechera’s doesn’t contain vanilla but includes salt as well as sodium and disodium phosphates, in addition to a preservative. I’ve no idea why.<\/p>\n

As for the taste? La Lechera’s dulce de leche is pretty good.\u00a0 It’s thinner than dulce de leche I’m used to, but then again it comes in a bottle with a picture of pancakes, so clearly it’s marketed as a topping not a spread.\u00a0 The taste is pretty close, though perhaps a bit more intense.\u00a0 It may be left to caramelize for longer than regular dulce de leche (though I’m not sure why it’d be thinner, then).\u00a0 In all, at $2lb it’s a great alternative to the real thing.\u00a0 These bottles retail normally for about $3.50 to $5.\u00a0 The ones at the San Leandro Grocery Outlet expire in May 2012, but they should last longer than that.<\/p>\n

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As an Argentinian I grew up eating dulce de leche every day.\u00a0 We ate it on sliced bread and toast and in pastries and cakes of all types.\u00a0 We use it as a topping for flan and, of course, in panqueques (crepes).\u00a0 And as an Argentinian I still LOVE dulce de leche.\u00a0 For years, I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,53],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-items","category-grocery-outlet","tag-dulce-de-leche","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}