Got milk?

[john70t]

No, the real stuff: https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/

[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

No, the real stuff: https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/

Absolutely, we have 3 dairies within 25 mile radius where we get raw milk.

We primarily buy ours from the Stryk Jersey Farm (they use Jersey cows vs Holstein).

The milk tastes so much better than anything that I've ever had from the store. It's not pasteurized or homogenized. It actually lasts as long or longer than store bought milk.

We've had it off and on for probably 20 years. Way back, someone would take your "order" and go to the dairy Sat morning and pick up a bunch of milk and bring it to a tiny "market" that was put on at a little health food grocery store. Then Texas outlawed that purchase by proxy setup and you had to go to the actual dairy to buy your milk. We had a dairy where I did that for a while, but they eventually shut it down. Now we've moved out to the country and live near one of them, but apparently, it's legal to do the purchase by proxy thing again, but we just drive over to the dairy. You go into the walk in cooler, take what you want. You then write down your name, and what you "bought" and leave money in a box using the money that's already in the box to make your change if needed. It's completely on the honor system. You occasionally run into someone from the farm that's working, doing paperwork, cleaning, whatever, but most of the time you don't.

[Dixie]

I thought this was going to be another "most beautiful women" thread. Haha

[Bill Douglas]

Not around here where I live.

But while on holiday there was a place that got around the laws regarding pasteurization. Wow, it was good stuff. Hehe, made an awesome latte.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Not around here where I live.

But while on holiday there was a place that got around the laws regarding pasteurization. Wow, it was good stuff. Hehe, made an awesome latte.

I have a cousin that lives in a state (Georgia, I'm pretty sure) where prior to this summer, unpasteurized milk had to be labeled as "not for human consumption". Folks that bought it could say "it's for our pets", and that was fine. It looks like GA has new law/regs on the books so that they can sell milk for human consumption as of Jul 1, 2023. Florida seems to still label their milk as "not for human consuption" "feed for calves only".

[oldE]

I think it was 1969 when the Nova Scotia Dairy Commission ruled that any volume sold over 3 quarts had to be pasteurized. Before that, we sold raw milk in the local community. Most of the small herd had Jersey in their background, so the butterfat content was high. Maybe 10%.
After regulations shut our little operation down, Mom made butter three times a week until the last of the cows were gone. We had a big chest freezer lined with pounds of butter three deep in the bottom. The only problem was Mom hadn't made butter since the '40s and she salted it for preservation at non-refrigerated temperature.
My cholesterol goes up just thinking about it.
Interesting watching the pendulum swing.

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Les

[stevej37]

There are small farms around here that will sell fresh milk right out of the cooling tank. Along with selling fresh chicken eggs...it's accepted as legal. I don't think they can advertise it in the papers or anything like that.

When I was in grade school, a local dairy brought the glass bottles of milk to whoever paid for a weeks worth.
Reg milk was 10 cents for a week...chocolate was 15 cents for five.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by stevej37

There are small farms around here that will sell fresh milk right out of the cooling tank. Along with selling fresh chicken eggs...it's accepted as legal. I don't think they can advertise it in the papers or anything like that.

When I was in grade school, a local dairy brought the glass bottles of milk to whoever paid for a weeks worth.
Reg milk was 10 cents for a week...chocolate was 15 cents for five.

Yeah, we have good sources for eggs as well. The eggs that we get have yolks that are practically orange compared to yellow for the store eggs. I don't know if I taste a difference of not. The place that we get the eggs also sells chickens and other meat.

Our source for chickens, eggs, ducks, turkeys, sometimes geese (I think they have stopped) pork and beef.

[Rusty Heap]

So? why do farm raised eggs taste "more flavor" than store bought...........extra grain or proteins?

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

So? why do farm raised eggs taste "more flavor" than store bought...........extra grain or proteins?

Don't know. But I was cooking a particular chicken dinner that I do and wasn't feeling terribly financial, so I bought ordinary chicken thigh fillets instead of the expensive free range ones GF and I usually buy. She could tell I'd bought the cheap stuff Tasted much the same to me.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rusty Heap

So? why do farm raised eggs taste "more flavor" than store bought...........extra grain or proteins?

I think most store bought eggs are from birds that are fed a steady diet of specific sorts of foods, likely some grain. Other, small farms probably feed grain, but at least the place that we buy from also lets the birds wander around outside and eat bugs or whatever they want to eat, so they get a very different diet.

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by john70t

No, the real stuff: https://www.realmilk.com/raw-milk-finder/

Interesting that the website lists 10 dairies in Wisconsin, most on the east side of the state. Technically it is illegal to sell raw milk to end users in WI.

I haven't had raw milk since I was a kid. My father's uncle raised dairy cows, and we would visit them quite often.

[LWJ]

Jerseys yield 10% butterfat???

Wow. You could almost burn that.

I found something I need to explore. Cool.

[oldE]

Originally Posted by LWJ

Jerseys yield 10% butterfat???

Wow. You could almost burn that.

I found something I need to explore. Cool.

Yeah, Mom always wanted a Jersey in the herd because she liked having the cream for baking.
My sister, on the other hand, hated it. If you didn't shake the bottle well in the morning, the first stuff that came out when you poured would be a slug of almost pure butterfat. Yummy!
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Les

[id10t]

Several dairies near me plus farmers markets etc

If I really needed/wanted it I have cows w calves, sheep and goats within 1 mile of the house, and I have milked a cow once so ...

Eggs we get from an almost neighbor (shes half mile away)

[Evans, Marv]

Originally Posted by oldE

Yeah, Mom always wanted a Jersey in the herd because she liked having the cream for baking.
My sister, on the other hand, hated it. If you didn't shake the bottle well in the morning, the first stuff that came out when you poured would be a slug of almost pure butterfat. Yummy!
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Les

As a very small kid, my parents had a cow (I think a Jersey) on a farm property we lived on (didn't own) and farmed. I think they got the cow from the prior dairly farm my father worked on. My mother would skim the cream off of the pale of milk into a mason jar. Then she would sit holding the jar (with lid on) in her hands and rock it back & forth. Chumks of butter would begin to nucleate, & she would spoon them out onto a saucer & create a big lump of butter. I don't remember what she did with the left over cream/milk. Butter milk?

[oldE]

Buttermilk indeed. Some folks love it as a beverage. The most noble usage is buttermilk biscuits. Oh my!
Pardon me. My taste buds just had a private moment.

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Les

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by oldE

I think it was 1969 when the Nova Scotia Dairy Commission ruled that any volume sold over 3 quarts had to be pasteurized.

1973, Franklin / Oil City PA. We bought milk from a farm and remember the farmer saying he could not sell unpasteurized milk. That's all I got.

[Racerbvd]

[oldE]

With respect to the sign: maybe Milk of Magnesia should be renamed.

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Les