Maliban

Maliban is a Sri Lankan food company whose name is familiar to almost every Sri Lankan household, mainly through its biscuits and crackers. It also produces milk powder, which suits a country where tins and bags of powdered milk have long been the everyday way to whiten tea and feed a family.

Maliban milk powder sits in our milk powder collection, part of the wider milk and malt drinks shelf. The range we carry is instant full cream milk powder in a large bulk bag, the size that makes sense for households that go through several cups of tea a day or that cook milky sweets often.

In Sri Lankan homes milk powder goes into almost every cup: strong plain tea made up into milk tea, kiri kopi, or a glass of warm milk with a spoon of sugar for the children. Because it is instant, it dissolves straight into hot water without lumps when whisked. Cooks use it to enrich kiri bath, to make milk toffee and dodol, and to thicken payasam and kesari when fresh milk runs short. South Indian cooks also use milk powder in quick burfi, milk peda and gulab jamun dough.

Transfer an opened bag to a large airtight tin, and keep it away from the stove and the kettle, since moisture makes milk powder clump and stale. Always use a dry spoon. To compare with other powdered milks, look at the Anchor range and our condensed and evaporated milk collection.