The richest 2% milk that I ever had

[ancient-one]

I like crackers and milk for a snack. I started eating it at a early age. My brother and me would go to my grandmothers(who lived just a block away) and skin the cream back on the big crock of Jersey milk in the ice box and have our nightly crackers and milk. I had gotten out of the habit of always having both items around but when I ordered groceries this week my order included both.
Late yesterday evening I needed something to take some pills with so I got the milk( I thought) out, opened the crackers, broke a bunch up and put in my glass. They were so good and the 2% milk was really rich and tasted better than any that I had ever had. After the glass was about half empty I was still marveling at the good milk and it hit me. I had also ordered some half and half and sure enough that is what I had grabbed from the refrigerator.

 

[delcrossv]

I've only had Jersey milk a few times but it really puts Holstein milk to shame.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I've been used to skim milk for so long that whole milk is like drinking yogurt.

 

[Tom Beavert]

Whole milk is only 3 percent real milk is min 4, I worked on a dairy farm as a kid and on a break would take the dipper hanging by the separator and take a cup. Now that was good milk. now I buy 1/2 and 1/2 just for a treat. Egg nog when available.
TB

 

[Onomea]

in my late teens, working mostly manual labor in NYC, my regular breakfast was cream cheese on a sesame bun with a pint of half and half from the local deli. Good stuff! (And I was thin as a rail and strong as an ox, too!)

 

[bigwheelzip]

....skin the cream back on the big crock of Jersey milk ......

That reminded me of my dear friend in Switzerland, who still gets deliveries of fresh un-homogenized milk from the dairy co-operative in her village. Their mobile retail box truck pulls in front of her house and blows the horn, and she takes a small bucket out for them to fill.
She pours it into a crock with a skimming spout and puts it in the fridge. Drinks the skim and cooks with the cream.

 

[mmb617]

When I eat cereal I like it with half and half instead of milk. On a cold winter morning a bowl of hot oatmeal with brown sugar and half and half really hits the spot.

 

[Puller]

It might not be long before only the top 2% will be able to afford milk short of owning a cow.

 

[JohnRippert]

I don't do cereal any more because I seem to have more issues with my stomach when I use milk, even lactaid milk. I keep a half pint of half n half in the fridge for when I need milk in a recipe. It keeps good so much longer than milk does.

 

[jbtrucker]

My dads late night snack was cornbread and milk , mom would mix carton of milk with powdered milk.

 

[Hair Trigger]

I like crackers and milk for a snack. I started eating it at a early age. My brother and me would go to my grandmothers(who lived just a block away) and skin the cream back on the big crock of Jersey milk in the ice box and have our nightly crackers and milk. I had gotten out of the habit of always having both items around but when I ordered groceries this week my order included both.
Late yesterday evening I needed something to take some pills with so I got the milk( I thought) out, opened the crackers, broke a bunch up and put in my glass. They were so good and the 2% milk was really rich and tasted better than any that I had ever had. After the glass was about half empty I was still marveling at the good milk and it hit me. I had also ordered some half and half and sure enough that is what I had grabbed from the refrigerator.

Most of my Dad's kin were farmers (he escaped farming as early as he could) and had a cow. One of his sisters married a dairy farmer. They all had gallon-sized or larger glass jars in their fridge full of raw milk, that you'd have to shake up to mix the cream. Or, for a treat, just scoop some of the cream out to spread on a piece of apple pie they'd made. When I was in 1st through 3rd grade, a local dairy supplied milk for the school, it came in half-pint bottles with a paper lid and a small layer of cream; we'd shake it up, then peel off the lid and lick the underside for the cream remnant. To this day, I can't stand milk that is 2% or skim. I use light whipping cream for my coffee about half the time, if the wife has any for her cooking.

It might not be long before only the top 2% will be able to afford milk short of owning a cow.

The cow ain't cheap, you gotta have a place to graze her, and still have to feed grain.

Of course, she'll provide steaks later.

My dads late night snack was cornbread and milk , mom would mix carton of milk with powdered milk.

My Mom also did that. Dad also liked his cornbread in buttermilk. I never could get used to that stuff, it tasted like it was spoiled.

 

[MRB1]

I vote for homemade cornbread (not the prepackaged stuff) and whole milk for a bedtime snack.

 

[s&wchad]

The richest 2% milk that I ever had, that wasn’t

Fixed the title for you!

I keep a half pint of half n half in the fridge for when I need milk in a recipe. It keeps good so much longer than milk does.

You must be inadvertently buying ultra pasteurized Half & Half. A lot of stores sell both kinds. Pasteurized dairy products typically have a use by date 2 weeks out when unopened. I bought a quart of ultra pasteurized half & half the other day and the use by date is Mar 20th.

 

[kmyers]

Whole milk is a favorite here with both of us. I also like to sip half and half and heavy cream as a treat from time to time.

 

[ACORN]

My Dad told about when he was a kid on his paper route if someone left their milk out in cold weather, the cream would rise to the top and pop the paper caps off. He’d snap it off and eat it like a popsicle.

 

[rwsmith]

I like whole milk, too.......

...but like a lot of things I've switched to 2%.


I remember as a kid eating a sleeve of crackers with milk at one sitting.

 

[lkabug]

My dads late night snack was cornbread and milk , mom would mix carton of milk with powdered milk.[/QUOTE cornbread crumbled in buttermilk! Good stuff.

 

[mtgianni]

I grew up milking but now drink very little milk. It plays havoc with my sinus's.

My uncle was a former president of the American Dairy Association and milked 150 head at one time. When you were at their house and had cereal it came with cream straight off of the tanks. Best way ever to eat oatmeal.

 

[Gaffer]

I was told that milk made me snore so I changed to Almond milk. It is made from almonds and snoring went away. Its called Almond Breeze and has several mixes as to calories and I like the vanilla flavor the best.

 

[Kinman]

I have little use for milk, but do like arf-n-arf from time to time on a real good granola. My dad was the only person I ever knew that liked milk and crackers for a snack, he was raised in Minnesota. He also liked stewed maters with pieces of bread in it to soak up the juice...grossed me out as a kid, he would sprinkle a little sugar on it. I was never a big milk drinker, I had friends that would drink milk by the quart, my kid brother liked milk and we used in on cereal. Years later it was proven that milk allergies were a possible cause of teenage acne, I was thankfully spared that but do remember friends having the problem. The dairy industry made good on "Drink Milk", humans weren't designed to drink any milk other than from their mother. Cows milk was designed to put meat on a barn yard animal. Now cheese is another story...I'm all over that.