Inside the fridge at “The Natural Diary” All these beautiful glass bottles of the most flavoursome milk you have ever tasted! It’s pasteurised and not too full of cream which must be the type of dairy cattle they farm.
You bring back your empty bottles which they will sterilise and take full ones from this fridge.
To be thankful for:
The most delicious ham and pea soup - from the supermarket but so delicious. I just made some croutons to go with it.
When we arrived at our farmhouse holiday home they had put a huge jug of milk in the fridge - straight from the cow! I had never tasted unpasteurised milk before and it was absolutely delicious - the cream had settled on the top. I loved it cold from the fridge! I love your image of the bottles of milk and think it’s such a great system that you can return the bottle to be reused!
@pamknowler@maggiemae It is what we have all the time ... straight from the cow.. FG doesn't like it when we have to buy milk when the cows are dry .. But unpasteurised milk can not be sold to the public..
@julzmaioro It is a total food, I think Julia - got calcium, protein, iron, Vitamin A, B, C and D, magnesium and cobalamin. But when its processed like supermarket milk, it loses quite a bit!
Yum. My great uncles had a dairy and delivered bottles of milk and cream to people’s porches. They spun the milk through a separator to remove a bunch of the cream.
@julzmaioro yes the farmer told us he sends all his milk off and it is processed before being sold. I am glad I was able to enjoy the milk straight from the cow as it was delicious! My mum used to buy full cream pasteurised milk from the milkman who delivered it to our door which was wonderful cold from the fridge - lovely memory! Now it’s semi- scimmed from the supermarket for us - supposed to be healthier! How times change!
@ludwigsdiana These ones have secure lids which don't come off easily. I seem to remember the bottles in my childhood had cardboard tops with a hole in the middle for putting a straw in!
@julzmaioro Back when I was on the farm we used to play tennis in a team that included some dairy farmers. Money was, as usual on the land, pretty tight so we used to swap them a lamb every so often in exchange for milk straight from their milking shed. Unpasteurised, of course!!! Never did us or the kids any harm.
@golftragic I can remeber collecting it in a glass at the cowshed as it was about to go in the seperater ( Dad had pigs as well and fed them skim milk ..)
@julzmaioro That would've been great. At one place we lived when I was about 7 or 8 we used to get our daily milk delivered ladled from a milk can into the billy we hung on our front gate. Hygiene is one thing, silly regulation is another thing altogether, we ate our own meat on the farm and drank our friends' milk and we all, young and old, have cast-iron constitutions and excellent immune systems.
@golftragic I agree wholeheartedly! Immune systems, natural food, cooked right, of course was so important! My Mum had a heat storage oven which worked on high - all the time! Cabbage, stews, various meat dishes and overall, porridge suffered! You could not turn it down!
wasn't life so simple back when we were young? even the lines of bottles were simple yet attractive. i remember when the old milk delivery was reinstated in manila a long time ago, when you leave your bottles by the door and the fresh ones left in their stead and you wake up and first thing you do is grab those bottles of milk. ah, gone are the days, but maybe in rural places it still happens. this brings back memories.
@summerfield This farm is offering delivery for $5 which is good but I worry about the milk just sitting there. Someone might pinch it or it might get warm in the sun. So I drive down and pick it straight from the farm's refrigerator!
September 2nd, 2019
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