Sweetened, thick milk product used in desserts and drinks. Often refers to sweetened condensed milk (加糖練乳).
I pour condensed milk over shaved ice and eat it.
This recipe uses condensed milk.
Specifically sweetened condensed milk; 練乳 can refer to both sweetened and unsweetened varieties, but in practice often implies sweetened.
sweetened condensed milk
Standard kanji spelling for condensed milk.
Rarely used kanji form; 煉 is an older variant of 練.
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; sometimes used for readability or when the kanji 練 is not preferred.
Compound of 練 (ren, 'knead, refine') and 乳 (nyū, 'milk'), literally 'refined milk'. The term describes milk that has been condensed and often sweetened.