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Raw Milk

Brunneria said:
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The worst milk I ever had was as a young child in early-post-war Germany: apparently there was a lot of tuberculosis in their milk cows, so part of our army rations was tinned milk. It tasted vile and turned our cups of tea a violent orange colour! Really disgustingly YUKKY :***::***:

Robbity
 
Robbity said:
You're lucky that the blue **** didn't get it first - we regularly had our creamy tops burgled by those greedy little birds!

With apologies to our real Bluetit for the slur...

Robbity
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This bluetit always got the cream from the top if my wild relations didn't get there first. Delicious on cornflakes!
 

The silver label in the UK with the 'TT' (Tuberculosis tested) mark.
I can't remember if the green and gold top had the mark, but the had to be tested to let us buy the milk in either way.
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Remember being in primary school and we visited a farm and the farmer hand milked a cow, we each had a glass of it and remember it tasted delicious, could you imagine that happening now
 
noblehead said:
Remember being in primary school and we visited a farm and the farmer hand milked a cow, we each had a glass of it and remember it tasted delicious, could you imagine that happening now
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Next research paper exclusives." Cows milk gives you diabetes"...
 
Never heard it called raw but that must be what I delivered as a kid in the fifties and sixties.
Milk the cow pour through paper filter run over the cooler bottle it still very warm and drop it on doorsteps still very warm.
It was called TT milk which meant the cows had been tuberculosis tested.
Is that raw milk?
The small bottling shed was ten feet away from the cow shed where they were milked fed and slap crapped all over the place.
Wouldn't be allowed these days but .... reports all come to the same conclusion that late fifties early sixties Britain had the healthiest population it has ever had.
In fact when I think back to the kids doing the milking and bottling there was no hand washing.
Slap the cows bung the milker on them shovel some feed and some **** and bottle the milk.
 
Rules, regs & sources here
http://www.naturalfoodfinder.co.uk/unpasteurised-raw-milk-uk
During WW2 (I was born in 1941) we used to walk half a mile to the nearest farm for supplies like milk, eggs, butter and I don't know what else, bearing in mind rationing was in force. I remember green top, although after the war my gran used to have gold top and had the cream on her porridge every day.
 
Nuthead said:
Next research paper exclusives." Cows milk gives you diabetes"...
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Don't, there's been many hypothesis over the last 30 years that drinking cows milk can lead to type 1 diabetes
 
Nuthead said:
Mrs Nuthead raised on milk warm from the cow..Yummy stuff..
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I used to work with a girl who was a farmers daughter - she used to rave about milk warm and frothy straight from the cow, and she had the most lovely English rose complexion.

Robbity
 
noblehead said:
Remember being in primary school and we visited a farm and the farmer hand milked a cow, we each had a glass of it and remember it tasted delicious, could you imagine that happening now
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I remember delivering the stuff to primary schools.
I could lift a stack of 5 crates of 1/3 pint bottles, carry them up the steps, and leave them in the sun to gently bake for 4 or 5 hours until it reached blood heat for the kids to drink at morning break, without even breaking a sweat.
Mind you I could do the same with a stack of 5 crates of 20 pints off fresh milk, but that was a bit harder to carry.
(I also remember hooking 20 crates of milk off the dock with the back of an electric milk float one morning by accident, but it was sterilised milk, and I still think that was public service, destroying 400 pints of that stuff)
 
Robbity said:
I used to work with a girl who was a farmers daughter - she used to rave about milk warm and frothy straight from the cow, and she had the most lovely English rose complexion.

Robbity
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That's ok until they step back on you, or you put your back out!
 


Were you Ernie?
 
It's illegal to sell raw milk to the public in Canada. I remember seeing it in a California grocery store a few years ago, though.
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
It's illegal to sell raw milk to the public in Canada. I remember seeing it in a California grocery store a few years ago, though.
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Bit of a Nanny state. Getting like that in the UK. I believe you can't get Kinder eggs because of the small bits
 
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