Re: New to S & W - milk - Refrigeration


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Posted by Robert Dilley on June 12, 2005 at 02:56:27 from 216.26.204.218 user rdilley.

In Reply to: Re: New to S & W - milk - Refrigeration posted by Dan Lind on June 12, 2005 at 01:55:19:

I lived in the 50s and 60s in (successively, not simultaneously) two typical north Lake District farmhouses, with stone walls so thick you could comfortably sit in the window recesses.

The first one had no electricity. There was a small room with a tiny window (for light) that was the pantry and perishables were kept there. As we were three miles from the nearest village (no bus service) most shopping was done from “travelling shops”: vans that delivered bread (three times a week), meat (three times a week); general groceries (once a week) and fish (once a week). Milk came from the farm next door. Every so often my father would be talked into taking my mother on a trip into Carlisle for major purchases.

Even when we moved to house #2 (which had electricity and was in a small village) we could not afford a fridge and my mother would go to the local shop for the day's meal.

Now almost everyone has fridges, freezers and at least one car, and the village stores are dead or dying.

From experience; if you don't have a fridge, milk will not keep long.

Also, remember that for the Swallows, going for milk on a daily basis was the way the natives knew they were not in trouble.



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