[MargaretR]

I have just worked out that I use that much per week for just me -seems like a lot but I love the stuff. I buy all my food in bulk once a fortnight in order to get free delivery, so my milk has to be UHT. I dont scrimp on the flavour - has to be 'full fat' - I just cut back on other fats in my diet to compensate.

There is nothing to compare with 'gold top jersey' we had as a 'little treat for the weekend' -yummy

I make my own probiotic (yogurt type) drink with milk. Just at the moment I am trying it with UHT goats milk.
The main drawback with the old bottle/doorstep deliveries was keeping the birds from pecking the tinfoil tops to get at the cream.
Before that (1940s) I remember deliveries by horse and cart and the milk being ladeled from a churn into the jugs on doorsteps and having little squares of cloth weighted with beads sewn on the corners to keep the dust and birds off.
Milk is more hygenically sold nowadays and that is a good thing about modern food processing. My brother suffered from a TB infection of the gland in his neck for a long spell of his childhood, which was due to consuming 'raw' milk -ie. in the days before herds were inoculated.
We have at least one ex dairy farmer who posts here - we may get some more interesting old info from him