SC - Re: Pennsic Milk

[Sue Clemenger]

You got that right! We didn't get it in little bottles, but bought it in
those big gallon mayonnaise jars from the dairy farmer down the road. 
Used to be quite an argument over who got to "skim the cream" off the
top, esp. in spring when it was so thick you could almost roll it up
with your fingers!
- --Maire

alysk at ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> Etain wrote:
> 
> >or....when it was VERY cold..and you opened the "milk box" to find the little
> >foil cap sitting on a column of frozen cream rising from the top of the jug?
> >(and your mom let you "cut your milk" into your tea that morning?)
> 
> Back in my childhood days (early 40s) the cap was cardboard, not foil.  Eating
> the cream right out of the bottle was a rare and wonderous treat!  Homogenized
> milk just can't do that!
> 
> Alys Katharine