"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>
> Dee Randall wrote:
>
>> Sorry, the last posting got sent before finishing up.
>>
>> I bought my first gallon of raw milk and the cream is visible on the top
>> of
>> the jar. I put this milk into two 1/2 gallon mason jars, and the cream
>> is
>> still visible.
>
> When I was a youngun and milk was delivered daily it used to come in a
> bottle
> with a little teat affair at the top. The neck of the bottle narrowed,
> then
> flared out a bit and narrowed again. The cream used to raise to the top.
> We had
> a special spoon that was a round bowl on the end of a long curved handle
> and it
> was placed in the top of the bottle and shoved down to separate the milk
> form
> the cream and then the cream was poured off.

We called the cream on top "crilk". And if the cream froze while the bottle
was still sitting on the porch, it pushed up the cardboard top and your mom
let you have the "ice cream".

Felice