Felice Friese wrote:
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> Dee Randall wrote:
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>>
>>> 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".

My mom talks about that, and also how her younger brother liked to drink
the cream off the top of the bottle with a staw then claim it was his
imaginary horse that did it.

The milkman that *I* remember dropped off a five-gallon semi-rigid bag
of milk with a spigot on it which lasted our family of 4 about a week.
I wish that service was still available but then again I'd need a bigger
fridge.

Just the other day I was thinking about that...

How come I've got this fridge that's way bigger than anything my mom
ever had when we were growing up and I've still never got enough room?

Answer:

Fresh produce. Mom used mostly canned vegetables and they didn't take
up fridge space.

Also, whole grain bread. Mom bought Wonderbread and we ate a lot of it
so it was okay on the counter in the plastic bag it came in. I keep the
whole grain breads that I prefer in the fridge. The family likes bread
but doesn't eat a ton of it so a loaf may last most of a week as a
single-slice toasted breakfast treat.

Kathleen