[Sca-cooks] regional potluck

[Philip W. Troy & Susan Troy]

Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:
>
>          Have you ever tried Chrome Dairy milk?  It comes from Oxford PA,
> and was shipped to both natural foods groceries I worked at in Richmond,
> VA (as well as the 5 or 6 I didn't work in!).  It is *not* organic milk,
> but it *is* unhomogenized--even the skim milk has the tiniest fat layer
> at the top.  Chrome milk comes in the old-fashioned glass containers, and
> you pay a deposit on the bottle, so it ain't cheap, but it is so good,
> I'd suffer the bellycramps and other unpleasantness that happens if I
> drink milk every so often.  I believe Horizen brand organic milk is also
> unhomogenized, and that's now available in the podunk little town I live
> in at the Wal-mart.
>
>         Neither is fresh from the cow, but both are good to taste.  I've
> cooked a little with the Chrome, and I liked it, but the Horizen was
> always too expensive and had such a long date on it that it always sold
> before it became 1/2 price.

I haven't tried it, but I can usually get unhomogenized milk if I'm
willing to go to a little extra trouble, for cheesemaking and such; I
just can't get it from the little shop around the block, or in the
supermarket. I sometimes pick it up (originally from upstate New York)
at the farmers' market in Union Square on the way home from my son's
"samurai school" on Saturdays...

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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