[Sca-cooks] Re: cold cereal and milk

[Terry Decker]

Markham's The English Housewife contains a chapter on dairies and is of 
interest to anyone who wants to know about milking, milk and dairy products 
in Elizabethean England.  Markham refers to the process of cooling and 
seperating the cream as "fleeting" and is similar to what you describe.

Bear


> 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