Doorstep Milk

[katex]

After recent freezing nights, just wondered why the milk on your doorstep doesn't get the lovely icy bits any more and the one inch bit of frozen milk that forces its way out of the top .. do they add an ingredient these days to stop this? Always thought this was fun when I was little, particularly if you were school monitor and had to bring the crate in from the outside.

 

[lettie]

They probably put a bit of anti-freeze in it these days........well, they add all sorts of other rubbish to our foods. Doorstep milk always tasted so creamy, I loved the inch or so of cream on the top of it. Supermarket milk doesn't come close..

 

[entwisi]

When I got our milk delivered up to last year it used to freeze. Nowt better than a pint of milk so cold its got bits in it. Preferably sterilsed(Cheshire mld as we called it).

 

[grannyclaret]

i remember if you diddent bring the milk in early,the birds beat you to it,,, clever little things

 

[ANNE]

My Nanna always used to get seri milk. It was horrible but was the only milk that would make frothy coffee.
Used to stand for ages with finger stuck in the neck of the bottle when it was almost empty and shake till my arm was dropping off and milk had gone frothy.
Remember the ordinary milk freezing and popping the top off.

 

[katex]

i remember if you diddent bring the milk in early,the birds beat you to it,,, clever little things

Still do with me G-C .. pecks through silver foil, bit a dirt in cream top .. better take care though now, eh ? Bird flu ? Nah, don't even think about it.

 

[chav1]

i remember if you diddent bring the milk in early,the birds beat you to it,,, clever little things

or the paper boy

 

[MUMMIBOO]

My Nanna always used to get seri milk. It was horrible but was the only milk that would make frothy coffee.
Used to stand for ages with finger stuck in the neck of the bottle when it was almost empty and shake till my arm was dropping off and milk had gone frothy.
Remember the ordinary milk freezing and popping the top off.

i remember great aunty dorothy's milk always freezing! strange the things you remember.

 

[Basher]

Steri for coffee, Pasteurised for Tea that's the way it should be :engsmil:

 

[Tinkerbelle]

or the paper boy

lol! Or the paper girl

I remember being told a story by my mum, that if you stole milk from the doorstep the police could lock you away for it, that it was a very serious crime. The police viewed it as taking food from the mouth of babies even if there wasn't a child in the house.

Anyone know if I can officially have her sectioned or was she correct?

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Steri for coffee, Pasteurised for Tea that's the way it should be :engsmil:

Agree with that basher but unless I cart it back after a visit I cannot get steri milk. :

 

[SPUGGIE J]

If ice is the issue just get a cow to moo and deliver as required. Cant get fresher than that now can you.

 

[pendy]

I think it's because it's all homogenized that it doesn't freeze, but that cream tasted lovely.

 

[katex]

Don't BELIEVE this .. is my milkman on this sight and winding me up !?! After at least 40 years, there was my two pints sat on the doorstep, frozen cream emerging 1cm above neck with it's little silver cap balancing on the top. Grabbed them excitedly with screams of delight !! Yes !! what fun !!! squashed it down with t'other end of teaspoon, but still the blobs of ice dropped into my coffee.

Next poured on cereal and more blobs of ice ... 'twas absolutely wonderful, sure it tasted better. Please don't tell me I am sad when such a small thing can give me soooo much pleasure.

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Don't BELIEVE this .. is my milkman on this sight and winding me up !?! After at least 40 years, there was my two pints sat on the doorstep, frozen cream emerging 1cm above neck with it's little silver cap balancing on the top. Grabbed them excitedly with screams of delight !! Yes !! what fun !!! squashed it down with t'other end of teaspoon, but still the blobs of ice dropped into my coffee.

Next poured on cereal and more blobs of ice ... 'twas absolutely wonderful, sure it tasted better. Please don't tell me I am sad when such a small thing can give me soooo much pleasure.

Whatever tickles you katex.

 

[katex]

Simple things in life Spuggie .. we all have these moments of simple pleasures Just had mine for today.

 

[Gayle]

Yes, frozen this morning - try telling a four year old boy that he can't have cereal because there's no milk when you're holding two bottles of the stuff!

 

[katex]

My milkman does not now work Sat/Sun, so requested not to leave me 3 pints on Fridays .. too much and finish up chucking one down the sink.

Opened front door Friday and oh no ! 1 litre in a plastic container ... he must have puzzled on what to leave me.

Is this some new rule now ? How am I going to cope with this measurement wondering how much I will need to cover my cereal !! Also, the notes I leave him (never reads anyway) to show don't require anything on a particular day just won't sit well in a plastic bottle .. goin' to blow away, 'aint it ??

Start of a new era then ?

 

[jambutty]

Your mum is correct Tinkerbelle. In those days you could also leave the milk money in an empty bottle on the doorstep and no one would nick it.

Sadly the ‘fresh’ milk of today is not a patch on what we used to get. And that’s not warm memories speaking. In the forties and fifties there would be at least three inches of cream at the top and if you could gather enough you could make butter from it. Today you are lucky to get an inch of insipid cream. Short of going to the farm you cannot get green top anymore.

I still get my milk delivered in glass bottles to my doorstep but to help keep the delivery costs down I get 2 on a Monday and four on a Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 40p per pint. My milk lady collects the cash once every FIVE WEEKS on a Friday evening. At least it is as close to real milk as you can get these days so it is worth the price. It is far better than that homogenised white water in plastic containers that passes for milk these days.