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I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;

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On 8/1/2011 7:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:
I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;


BTW, are you young enough to need an explanation for that? ;

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CatNipped wrote:
On 8/1/2011 7:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:

I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;

BTW, are you young enough to need an explanation for that? ;

I'm old enough that I remember when milk came in glass bottles, and
was supposedly pasteurized, but we boiled it nevertheless. But that
was in a different country, and I have no idea why you'd need to shake
the carton in the States. Please explain.

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On 8/1/2011 7:49 PM, Patok wrote:
CatNipped wrote:
On 8/1/2011 7:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:

I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;

BTW, are you young enough to need an explanation for that? ;

I'm old enough that I remember when milk came in glass bottles, and was
supposedly pasteurized, but we boiled it nevertheless. But that was in a
different country, and I have no idea why you'd need to shake the carton
in the States. Please explain.


Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.

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On 8/1/2011 7:53 PM, CatNipped wrote:
On 8/1/2011 7:49 PM, Patok wrote:
CatNipped wrote:
On 8/1/2011 7:31 PM, CatNipped wrote:

I'm so old I still shake the milk carton before pouring?

How old are you? ;

BTW, are you young enough to need an explanation for that? ;

I'm old enough that I remember when milk came in glass bottles, and was
supposedly pasteurized, but we boiled it nevertheless. But that was in a
different country, and I have no idea why you'd need to shake the carton
in the States. Please explain.


Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.


Also, it was delivered to our door, fresh from the dairy, every other
day. That was also back in the day hen even doctors made house called
to "deliver"! ;

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Also, it was delivered to our door, fresh from the dairy, every other
day. *That was also back in the day hen even doctors made house called
to "deliver"! *;


We used to get our milk fresh from the dairy that was a quarter mile
down the road. Fresh and still warm from the cow. We would bring it
home and put it into the pasteurizer that we had at home. Later on
the barn started pasteurizing it first, but not in the early days.

Jane
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On Aug 2, 1:53*am, CatNipped wrote:
There was a thick layer of *cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). *You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.

we had silver and gold topped bottles- the gold ones contained milk
from Jersey cows and the cream at the top was the cause of regular
fights between me and my brothers as we all wanted it for our cereal!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

In ,
Lesley Madigan typed:
On Aug 2, 1:53 am, CatNipped wrote:
There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee
and chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.

we had silver and gold topped bottles- the gold ones contained milk
from Jersey cows and the cream at the top was the cause of regular
fights between me and my brothers as we all wanted it for our cereal!

Regular fights for the cream on top too - but we just wanted to drink it,
neat. My sister and I used to get in trouble for opening a new bottle before
the old one was finished - mainly because we wanted the cream off the top
and knew that the other one would mostly likely get it (to the howls of 'its
not faaaaaiiiiirrrr!') if we ourselves used the last of the old bottle. What
we didn't know at the time, and our mother has only recently admitted, was
that she too used to crack a new bottle just for the cream before the old
one was empty! LOL

Yowie

On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped
wrote:

Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.

Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time
with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come
to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork
to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee.

There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high
speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were
powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the
first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in
rocket engines.

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On Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:53:21 -0500, CatNipped
wrote:

Yeah, me too on the glass bottle. When I was growing up milk wasn't
"homogenized". There was a thick layer of cream at the top of each
bottle (my mother would pour most of that off to use in her coffee and
chicory). You had to shake the bottle to mix it up.

Somewhat after the introduction of homogenized milk, I spent some time
with the cousins, who had a couple of shorthorn cattle. The cream come
to the top of the jar in the fridge, of course. I recall using a fork
to dig some out of the jar, for iced coffee.

There are cream separators that spin the stuff in a bowl at high
speed, with the cream slopping over the rim. At first they were
powered by a horse walking in a circle. A guy named DeLaval used the
first steam turbines to drive them. The nozzle design is used today in
rocket engines.

My Dad worked on his father's dairy before it was closed, and came away with
a souvenir. Every year as long as he lived, the family Christmas tree was
"planted" in a separator bowl.

Joy