So thrilled...I finally found *non* ultra-pasturized heavy cream and buttermilk. This

We moved from Colorado to California in the mid-sixties. Our first home was a rental, across the...

...street from a huge dairy. The smell was... awful.

It was owned and operated by guy from the old country -either Germany or the Netherlands, I'm not really sure which. My German mother became buddies with the owner, so she got fresh cottage cheese, unpasteurized milk and the best unpasteurized cream you've ever eaten. (Well, maybe YOU, Wigs, have had better!)

We moved after a year because the freeway was coming through and we had to leave. But for that short time we ate like kings, but had to keep a clothespin on our noses when the winds shifted.

Michael

 
Real cream when I was growing up came from Mr. Howland. He had a small

farm with a few cows. In front on his house was a little shed with an old fashioned ice box and pint bottles of cream. It was unpastureized. You had to dig it out with a spoon. As I remember it was 50 cents and you put your money in a can on a chair. Honor system. No one was ever around. I really don't know what my mother did with it .

 
Oh, I've been a part of the cream on top of the bottle for a non-homogenized product. And

I grew up in that day of beating my sister to get the cream--with Mother telling me not to do that!!
I am positive that the difference between milk purchased directly from a farmer would be easy to compare much more favorably to a store product. I wasn't aware that that was what Marilyn had been able to get. ;o)
And I've had "real" buttermilk a lot in the past. LOL

 
Michael in Phoenix, you've enjoyed the real McCoy! And I agree, the aroma of a dairy farm is

none too pleasant. The only thing worse, IMHO, is a pig farm--my mom's older sister & her husband ran a pig farm, and my dad's father had a dairy herd of 40-50 Holsteins. Cows or chickens I could take, but pigs were awful to smell.

 
My fervent wish would B 2 find just pasturized milk or cream, but I only see the ultra-pasturized

version any more in this neck of the woods.

 
I have a close friend who bought a pig farm in southwest Missouri. He had 12,000...

...hogs at any one time (Big Pig Farm!).

I stayed at his place for a week once, and got an up close and personal look at the operation. O. M. G!!!!!!!!!

Nothing like the smell of a pig farm. You are so right!

Michael

 
The next time I drive up 2 the north side of Indpls, I will check the dairy case @ TJ's. Thx 4 the

suggestion.

 
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