[Sca-cooks] Re: cold cereal and milk

[Cat Dancer]

When my aunt and uncle had cows, the milk we had at breakfast was from the 
previous evening's milking which had been left to cool and separate so you 
could skim the cream. Milk from the morning milking was still too warm to 
be putting on cereal. IIRC this was similar to what's mentioned in the 
Little House books.

Margaret FitzWilliam


On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Johnna Holloway wrote:

> I shall have to do some more looking but my thought about this
> aspect was along the lines that cows were milked early in the am
> and that there would have been fresh milk avavilable in the morning
> that could have been used.
> F, Marion McNeill who wrote The Scots Kitchen also did a book on
> breakfasts and that seems to me to be the place to start this search as
> regards milk and porridge. She included a lot of material besides recipes as
> I recall.
> I have to do some early text work in the next couple of days.  I'll try and
> see what Dr. Moffet/Muffett  has to say on the matter.
>
> Johnna
>
> Terry Decker wrote:
>
>> What is the evidence for putting milk on porridge, as opposed to cooking 
>> the meal in milk?  Was adding milk to hot cereal common practice in 1877 
>> when the first cold cereal was developed or may not the practice of adding 
>> milk to hot cereal have grown out of the practice of adding milk to cold 
>> cereal?
>> 
>> Bear
>> 
>>> Using one of those leaps of logic we all so detest, I hypothesize that 
>>> putting milk on cold cereal was a natural evolutionary progression from 
>>> putting milk on porrige.
>>> 
>>> Berelinde,