I grew up helping grandma churn the milk to make butter. We had a large crock with a wood cover that fit over the paddle. My job was to operate the paddle until she checked to see if the butter was ready. Watching her form the round shape and placing it on the round butter dishes with decorative covers was interesting. She always completed her works of art using a small wooden paddle/spoon to make designs on top of the ball of butter. Funny how we remember the smallest things our elders allowed us to participate in on the farm.
I suppose my start in life is similar to yours. I wasn't the only making the paddle go up and down but I had my share. When the butter formed on top my mother would skim it off,then work it in a bowl with a flat wooden paddle to get the rest of the milk out.We then put the buttermilk into half gallon jars to sell. The butter was formed into a cube of 1/2 pound wood form then wrapped in wax paper and stored in the icebox until we got it out with the buttermilk,put our eggs in a basket and went to our route to sell. That buttermilk we kept was consumed at noon and supper along with moisture to form our cornbread. Whoever thought of cornbread being made without buttermilk.
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian premiered on May 7, 2008, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, before it was theatrically released on May 16 in the United States and on June 26 in the United Kingdom, by Walt Disney Pictures."
Written by C.S. Lewis, who is a marvelous writer. He was a contemporary of Tolkein, George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton. He started out as a self proclaimed atheist and ended up being the 20th century's greatest Christian apologist. The first book I ever read by him was Mere Christianity and the next was The Screwtape Letters. If you've never read Lewis, they're a great place to start. I don't think there's anything of his I haven't read (unless it's his scholarly works).
There is also a very interesting autobiographical movie, I think we saw it on Netflix...the Reluctant Convert, I think, is the title. I watched it twice.
Even the Narnia series can be read as an adult - they take you back to a less lascivious age, they are quite enchanting and a good read too. I did not encounter them until I had children because I was in my teens when they were published and so would not have been interested.
C S Lewis would have turned in his grave to see the mockery Disney made of his books, I was really saddened, they just had to inject a little romance into the story when it wasn't even hinted at in the book. These books were written for children with the usual moral restraints that used to be used.
Walt Disney biographer Leonard Mosley, who researched Walt Disney for years (as well as writing books on the DuPont's, the Dulles brothers, and Hirohito) wrote in his book on Walt Disney, it is not a happy story.
Disney is perhaps the epitome of Illuminati abilities to create images. They have created great images for things Disney, incl. Walt Disney, Disney movies, and Disney’s Amusement parks.
In some cases these things have been overrated, in other instances the sinister side to them has been carefully hidden. In order to make movies that contain the typical smut of Hollywood, sex and violence, Disney did a slight of hand and created subsidiaries which Disney runs, which has allowed them to keep their good image. They also never showed the public the hard core porn that was made for years in secrecy for the elite.
Parents would be surprised what is slipped into cartoons.
In Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” the castles are male sexual organs. In one cartoon Mighty Mouse is shown without comment clearly snorting cocaine. Walt Disney Studios Chairman Joe Roth is in charge of Walt Disney as well as subsidiaries Touchtone, Miramax, and Hollywood Pictures, which were all created to camouflage the Disney production of adult films.
Disney operates in a clandestine manner regarding the promotion, distribution and rating of the films produced by their subsidiaries.
I learned about this a while ago. Be aware and guarded with your children when you go to Disney amusement parks, they have systems of tunnels underneath....
We have both learnt something, you have learnt about C S Lewis a brilliant writer and I have learnt about Disney. I've looked into the Illuminati a bit but had not come across Disney's name. Looking back a t his earliest films , when evil was portrayed it really was scary for a child, a t lea St it was for me.
Not sure if this link will work for you. It is an old black and white cartoon of Mickey mouse putting holes in the swiss cheese with his penis, not kidding. If the link does not work, just google it, it came right up for me. Had to agree that I was 18 to see a children's cartoon?
Wow, did not expect to see that in such an early cartoon. The whole scene has all the characters and movements and words are tied to Mickey mouse. Thanks for the update.
Now you have really done it, instead of dumb clucks calling Robert "Bob", now it can be legally Rob. I never thought of Rob as an alternative! Love your personal take on life in general; humor and common sense go well together!
I meant to tell you about our last trip to Key West. We were much younger, 20 years ago. Flew into Miami, rental was a convertible, what a beautiful ride, over 40 bridges! We stoped at a Marina on the drive down and had fresh fish caught that morning for lunch. I still remember that fantastic lunch. We were staying about 4-5 blocks off of Duval Street at Eden House in KW. We met a young Japanese couple on the Wharf that we befriended and shared sushi made by the restaurant. I was sick for 2 days. So, I’ve made it a point to never have sushi again! We haven’t been back to Key West, but now at our age I’d opt for Islamorada, nice and quiet and a lot less expensive!
17F here and I spent an hour chiseling ice from my track loader's bogie wheels -- tracks froze up(nearly), could not plow the 1/2 mile lane from the road. Yesterday had to park the car at the bottom of the hill because it could not get to the top ever with AWD. Ice under 1" snow.
The good news: in 3 days . . . 38°F predicted. Heat wave baby.
I'm from Southern California. I lived in San Fernando valley, Seal Beach (I call this home), Hacienda Heights, and now my mom lives in Rancho Cucamonga.
Yaaa, it’s really a temperment issue and what work you want to do.
By the way, we cross Angus and Hereford to produce baldies for meat. This is doable because both breeds produce newborn calves at similar weight, though the Angus grow faster to market weight.
For beef cattle, the Hereford moms are easier than Angus to handle and keep, but that heavy Angus marketing is trending the beef industry towards monoculture, which I think is a bad idea.
Yep, the bulls are special, even if they’re used to you. These days, we usually keep a single Angus bull. He’s fairly well behaved, but we have to be careful around him.
One of the Hereford bulls, that we had years ago would eat out of my hand, and let me pat his head, but he still got excitable sometimes.
We raise Angus and only milk them to feed calves when necessary. However, they can be milked, just don't give as much and the milk is very rich. If I were buying a milk cow it would be a Jersey. I grew up drinking Jersey milk from my Granddad's cows. He gave it to us in Mason jars with the cream intact. They, like another commenter, sold milk, buttermilk and butter, and sometimes eggs. Blessings.
Actually, if you tame one, you'll find that she'll be milkable. You won't get as much as a milking breed, but they do produce. Now--Go bring in a bred heifer and make her a pet!
Indeed they are! And you'd probably have to bottle feed, at that. And then wait until breeding age--year and a half? Two? That's a big investment in time, but you'd have fresh milk (and all the headaches that milking can bring). OTOH, get a milking goat.
The cold can cause problems for people who have to work out of doors. In the Fall after harvest or sometimes during harvest dad would drive the tractor , whether it was harvest or getting the fields prepared for Spring before the Winter hit. His face would get frostbite or sunburned. This was before the really nice tractors they have now with heated or air-conditioned cabs. Sometimes during potato harvest we would get a freak snow storm or a big freeze. One time a big freeze hit the potatoes. We had to make sure to get all the frozen potatoes out of the piler before the potatoes made their way into the potato cellar. My brother put me on the outside piler where the sun would shine on the potatoes and you could tell which ones were frozen. I was a fast picker. I preferred to drive the ten wheeler truck , loading the potatoes from the field and taking the potatoes to the cellar. The cab had a heater. I remember dad going out in the middle of the night during calving season. That was a big deal. I watched the vet try to pull one calf out by chains. He was coming out the way. The mama cow ended up having a c- section. When we would herd the cows and I would look for the cow with the scare on its side.
Sounds like your childhood was much like mine. 🥰 Mine was a dairy in Upstate NY, though. For us, I remember it feeling warmer in the barn with 60 cows than the 200 year-old farmhouse! I remember the midnight carvings and baling square bales of hay in summer heat, pulling them straight from the baler and stacking them in a wagon. Hardest work I've ever done, and I've done heavy work all my life! The most dreaded sound of winter was "The barn cleaner's frozen!"
Wonderful writing. So fun to read. My Amish neighbors have Kitchen Aids too. They’re called teenagers 😂. I see them quite often rocking a gallon jug of cream.
About the Key West trip: happy anniversary and have a wonderful time. You will be driving past the Deering Estate, one of many public parks that preserve the natural wild life of the area, on your way from Miami through South Miami past the Everglades and on down to the Keys. I grew up there. Volunteered at the Deering Estate as the resident spider specialist. South Florida had the best collection of spider species anywhere in North America. My favorite thing was midnight nature walks to hunt the nighttime Bola and Ogre Faced spiders. Shocking how many people would show up for these programs. Best done however in summer!
I grew up in Florida, and there was a little black, white and red spider with a hard shell and spines like a crab that we loved to play with. We would hold them quietly inside our hands for a few minutes, then when you gently opened your hands, they would have made a small network of webs inside your hands.
Oh WOW! I did not know that!!! I kept a big tarantula in a glass case in my pocket when I did spider shows for kids. I’d take it out and let her crawl all over me. I loved that spider. 🕷️ eventually though I built an allergy to her fur and the itching was intolerable. I had to give up petting her.
Do you guys use some sort of snow cleats for your muck boots? They help lots. We wouldn’t be surviving the ice we have without them. Thank God, no falls. I use Yak Trax with a Dollar Tree dog collar across the top of my boot to keep them on.
My husband put studs in a pair of Artic overboots, and they work great.
They have saved us from many falls as it is very hilly here in WV, and we are in “higher elevation.”
Tell Governor Morrissey we love him. We appreciate his work for vaccine freedoms and his respect for Life.
I appreciate y’all’s Substack work. God bless you both.
It's been a couple of years since I made butter, but I decided I'd rather drink the cream than make butter with it. One thing I remember from my childhood is drinking buttermilk. My grandmother insisted it was wonderful, I thought it was awful. How times change--now I love it, but the real stuff, not the cultured stuff.
My grandfather would come in from the barn after milking and pour the milk through a separator, then he'd hand the cream to my grandmother. We grandkids used to take turns (at least, the girls did) making butter. Gram had a wooden container with a crank on it and it was our job to turn it, and my sister and I would take turns, handing it off when our arms gave out.
Oh, no! Did I say grandkids? GrandCHILDREN. Kids are goats.
Thank you for the instructions for making butter. I'd like to try this at some point.
Some weeks ago, I described my efforts at making ice cream (two batches, mint chocolate chip & carrot cake) with my newly ordered equipment. On Kroger's website, I read the reviews beforehand for heavy cream options, the best of which was just above the midpoint for the ratings spectrum.
I bought the best of what was available in the refrigerated section: Horizon Organic Heavy Whipping Cream. $6.29. Per pint. If I recall correctly, I needed 3 pints to make 2 batches. A 48 oz container of Breyers currently shows at $5.99. Still, no regrets. My ice cream was great.
Greetings from the Thumb Coat of Michigan! Congratulations on your ice cream making venture! As to content, homemade is much better for you! Check out the ingredients of Breyer's. Keep in mind the difference between "value" versus "cost;" homemade from applesauce to ice cream to hot cocoas (made from scratch), to bread , t0 stew and soup - all better for your body! In our house, we have now set aside a half day a week for baking! using organic ingredients! Scones, breads, cookies, pies popovers. Amazing how rapidly the good stuff disappears! I'd like to taste your mint chocolate chip. Slainte!
Yeah but...Bryers is not Organic. They push taste. Tout sustainable and natural...except not when sourced from other suppliers - which they nevertheless incorporate into their finished products. Try Strauss Ice Cream (if not making your own) - at least they are Organic.
Took me too long to wake up to changes at Breyers. I remember when they ran commercials poking fun at less than wholesome ingredients. From 1984, long before Unilever took the reins:
A preliminary Happy Anniversary!! The way the weather has been 40 degrees will feel like you’re in Key West. Hopefully some of that ice will melt. Only 59 today in Key West for a high…
If I were a fly on the wall, I would share my hope that you and Jill take a little more time for yourselves just to settle. (Your Key West anniversary celebration adventure sounds fabulous! Congratulations!) You guys are so precious -- and this level of activity/travel sounds overly stressful, at least to my sensitive little fly ears :) God bless you both.
I grew up helping grandma churn the milk to make butter. We had a large crock with a wood cover that fit over the paddle. My job was to operate the paddle until she checked to see if the butter was ready. Watching her form the round shape and placing it on the round butter dishes with decorative covers was interesting. She always completed her works of art using a small wooden paddle/spoon to make designs on top of the ball of butter. Funny how we remember the smallest things our elders allowed us to participate in on the farm.
I suppose my start in life is similar to yours. I wasn't the only making the paddle go up and down but I had my share. When the butter formed on top my mother would skim it off,then work it in a bowl with a flat wooden paddle to get the rest of the milk out.We then put the buttermilk into half gallon jars to sell. The butter was formed into a cube of 1/2 pound wood form then wrapped in wax paper and stored in the icebox until we got it out with the buttermilk,put our eggs in a basket and went to our route to sell. That buttermilk we kept was consumed at noon and supper along with moisture to form our cornbread. Whoever thought of cornbread being made without buttermilk.
A herd of angry Peacocks and Emus would effectively break up a blue haired mob in Minnesota!
Yes, they would. This is a great suggestion for ‘sanctuary’ Minnesota madness.
Like.
Loved the comment under Prince Caspian’s picture! It made my day start with a good, long laugh! Thank you!
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ...
"The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian premiered on May 7, 2008, at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City, before it was theatrically released on May 16 in the United States and on June 26 in the United Kingdom, by Walt Disney Pictures."
The books were around a lot longer, and better, too.
Thanks did not know that...
Written by C.S. Lewis, who is a marvelous writer. He was a contemporary of Tolkein, George MacDonald and G.K. Chesterton. He started out as a self proclaimed atheist and ended up being the 20th century's greatest Christian apologist. The first book I ever read by him was Mere Christianity and the next was The Screwtape Letters. If you've never read Lewis, they're a great place to start. I don't think there's anything of his I haven't read (unless it's his scholarly works).
There is also a very interesting autobiographical movie, I think we saw it on Netflix...the Reluctant Convert, I think, is the title. I watched it twice.
I was not expecting C.S. Lewis.... thanks for the update information.
George MacDonald wrote some great books too.
Even the Narnia series can be read as an adult - they take you back to a less lascivious age, they are quite enchanting and a good read too. I did not encounter them until I had children because I was in my teens when they were published and so would not have been interested.
C S Lewis would have turned in his grave to see the mockery Disney made of his books, I was really saddened, they just had to inject a little romance into the story when it wasn't even hinted at in the book. These books were written for children with the usual moral restraints that used to be used.
Disney is not what they appear to be.
Walt Disney biographer Leonard Mosley, who researched Walt Disney for years (as well as writing books on the DuPont's, the Dulles brothers, and Hirohito) wrote in his book on Walt Disney, it is not a happy story.
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/bloodlines/disney1.htm
Disney is perhaps the epitome of Illuminati abilities to create images. They have created great images for things Disney, incl. Walt Disney, Disney movies, and Disney’s Amusement parks.
In some cases these things have been overrated, in other instances the sinister side to them has been carefully hidden. In order to make movies that contain the typical smut of Hollywood, sex and violence, Disney did a slight of hand and created subsidiaries which Disney runs, which has allowed them to keep their good image. They also never showed the public the hard core porn that was made for years in secrecy for the elite.
Parents would be surprised what is slipped into cartoons.
In Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” the castles are male sexual organs. In one cartoon Mighty Mouse is shown without comment clearly snorting cocaine. Walt Disney Studios Chairman Joe Roth is in charge of Walt Disney as well as subsidiaries Touchtone, Miramax, and Hollywood Pictures, which were all created to camouflage the Disney production of adult films.
Disney operates in a clandestine manner regarding the promotion, distribution and rating of the films produced by their subsidiaries.
I learned about this a while ago. Be aware and guarded with your children when you go to Disney amusement parks, they have systems of tunnels underneath....
We have both learnt something, you have learnt about C S Lewis a brilliant writer and I have learnt about Disney. I've looked into the Illuminati a bit but had not come across Disney's name. Looking back a t his earliest films , when evil was portrayed it really was scary for a child, a t lea St it was for me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/zr2w6/it_took_me_a_minute_to_notice_what_was_strange/
Not sure if this link will work for you. It is an old black and white cartoon of Mickey mouse putting holes in the swiss cheese with his penis, not kidding. If the link does not work, just google it, it came right up for me. Had to agree that I was 18 to see a children's cartoon?
Wow, did not expect to see that in such an early cartoon. The whole scene has all the characters and movements and words are tied to Mickey mouse. Thanks for the update.
Key West is cool. Enjoy your anniversary!
Great article. Love learning about how things are done on the farm. Hope you both have a great vacation and happy anniversary!
Thanks for informative update, Jill...I will forward to family & friends.
The look in Gizmo's eye is pure love; and Prince Caspian is one handsome (Peacock) dude.
BTW, President Trump has nothing on you, two, work ethic wise.
Now you have really done it, instead of dumb clucks calling Robert "Bob", now it can be legally Rob. I never thought of Rob as an alternative! Love your personal take on life in general; humor and common sense go well together!
I meant to tell you about our last trip to Key West. We were much younger, 20 years ago. Flew into Miami, rental was a convertible, what a beautiful ride, over 40 bridges! We stoped at a Marina on the drive down and had fresh fish caught that morning for lunch. I still remember that fantastic lunch. We were staying about 4-5 blocks off of Duval Street at Eden House in KW. We met a young Japanese couple on the Wharf that we befriended and shared sushi made by the restaurant. I was sick for 2 days. So, I’ve made it a point to never have sushi again! We haven’t been back to Key West, but now at our age I’d opt for Islamorada, nice and quiet and a lot less expensive!
Have fun in Key West!
I have scuba dived the sunken ship in Islamorada a couple of times. It is an 80 foot dive with strong currents. What an experience!
Looks like Austin days will be in 70s at least early next week according to Accuweather. Grain of salt,required of course.
that's just not fair. man!
17F here and I spent an hour chiseling ice from my track loader's bogie wheels -- tracks froze up(nearly), could not plow the 1/2 mile lane from the road. Yesterday had to park the car at the bottom of the hill because it could not get to the top ever with AWD. Ice under 1" snow.
The good news: in 3 days . . . 38°F predicted. Heat wave baby.
Here in So Cal it’s been in the 80’s. The only good thing going on in CA.
I'm from Southern California. I lived in San Fernando valley, Seal Beach (I call this home), Hacienda Heights, and now my mom lives in Rancho Cucamonga.
Fullerton!
Cool! Another OC girl 💖💖
Coool.
Bet that real butter is yummy.
(Our beef cattle are not milkable, LOL.)
Same problem here with the snow that won't melt. We're all tired of it. Big hassle to keep animals watered.
Someone was telling me that Angus make good milk cows. You don't get as much - but if using for meat anyways, you can train one or two up...
Yaaa, it’s really a temperment issue and what work you want to do.
By the way, we cross Angus and Hereford to produce baldies for meat. This is doable because both breeds produce newborn calves at similar weight, though the Angus grow faster to market weight.
For beef cattle, the Hereford moms are easier than Angus to handle and keep, but that heavy Angus marketing is trending the beef industry towards monoculture, which I think is a bad idea.
My brother used to raise Chianina. I was surprised they were so mellow, but I still walked carefully in the pasture when the bull was around.
Yep, the bulls are special, even if they’re used to you. These days, we usually keep a single Angus bull. He’s fairly well behaved, but we have to be careful around him.
One of the Hereford bulls, that we had years ago would eat out of my hand, and let me pat his head, but he still got excitable sometimes.
We raise Angus and only milk them to feed calves when necessary. However, they can be milked, just don't give as much and the milk is very rich. If I were buying a milk cow it would be a Jersey. I grew up drinking Jersey milk from my Granddad's cows. He gave it to us in Mason jars with the cream intact. They, like another commenter, sold milk, buttermilk and butter, and sometimes eggs. Blessings.
Actually, if you tame one, you'll find that she'll be milkable. You won't get as much as a milking breed, but they do produce. Now--Go bring in a bred heifer and make her a pet!
If I were to designate a milker, I’d start the socialization effort with a brand new calf. They’re pretty rambunctious by the time they’re bred.
I think that would be wise... Even Jersey's by the time they are yearlings can be a bit much.
Indeed they are! And you'd probably have to bottle feed, at that. And then wait until breeding age--year and a half? Two? That's a big investment in time, but you'd have fresh milk (and all the headaches that milking can bring). OTOH, get a milking goat.
If I go for the dairy biz, some goats would be fun. They're special in their own way, though. Like Houdini.
When we were raising goats, I heard and believed if it will hold water, it will hold a goat. But they are lots of fun and laughs. Especially the kids.
😎 They’ve got a lot of personality for sure. Pretty many goat owners around here. And Alpacas are gaining popularity.
The cold can cause problems for people who have to work out of doors. In the Fall after harvest or sometimes during harvest dad would drive the tractor , whether it was harvest or getting the fields prepared for Spring before the Winter hit. His face would get frostbite or sunburned. This was before the really nice tractors they have now with heated or air-conditioned cabs. Sometimes during potato harvest we would get a freak snow storm or a big freeze. One time a big freeze hit the potatoes. We had to make sure to get all the frozen potatoes out of the piler before the potatoes made their way into the potato cellar. My brother put me on the outside piler where the sun would shine on the potatoes and you could tell which ones were frozen. I was a fast picker. I preferred to drive the ten wheeler truck , loading the potatoes from the field and taking the potatoes to the cellar. The cab had a heater. I remember dad going out in the middle of the night during calving season. That was a big deal. I watched the vet try to pull one calf out by chains. He was coming out the way. The mama cow ended up having a c- section. When we would herd the cows and I would look for the cow with the scare on its side.
Sounds like your childhood was much like mine. 🥰 Mine was a dairy in Upstate NY, though. For us, I remember it feeling warmer in the barn with 60 cows than the 200 year-old farmhouse! I remember the midnight carvings and baling square bales of hay in summer heat, pulling them straight from the baler and stacking them in a wagon. Hardest work I've ever done, and I've done heavy work all my life! The most dreaded sound of winter was "The barn cleaner's frozen!"
Wonderful writing. So fun to read. My Amish neighbors have Kitchen Aids too. They’re called teenagers 😂. I see them quite often rocking a gallon jug of cream.
About the Key West trip: happy anniversary and have a wonderful time. You will be driving past the Deering Estate, one of many public parks that preserve the natural wild life of the area, on your way from Miami through South Miami past the Everglades and on down to the Keys. I grew up there. Volunteered at the Deering Estate as the resident spider specialist. South Florida had the best collection of spider species anywhere in North America. My favorite thing was midnight nature walks to hunt the nighttime Bola and Ogre Faced spiders. Shocking how many people would show up for these programs. Best done however in summer!
I grew up in Florida, and there was a little black, white and red spider with a hard shell and spines like a crab that we loved to play with. We would hold them quietly inside our hands for a few minutes, then when you gently opened your hands, they would have made a small network of webs inside your hands.
Oh WOW! I did not know that!!! I kept a big tarantula in a glass case in my pocket when I did spider shows for kids. I’d take it out and let her crawl all over me. I loved that spider. 🕷️ eventually though I built an allergy to her fur and the itching was intolerable. I had to give up petting her.
Jill, you are a real trooper. Please be super careful on that ice. You are NOT replaceable - those ungrateful emus are.
Huge blessings!
This is Jill. Robert has been insisting on feeding and watering, as I have a bionic ankle.
Well, He is not replaceable either!
Do you guys use some sort of snow cleats for your muck boots? They help lots. We wouldn’t be surviving the ice we have without them. Thank God, no falls. I use Yak Trax with a Dollar Tree dog collar across the top of my boot to keep them on.
My husband put studs in a pair of Artic overboots, and they work great.
They have saved us from many falls as it is very hilly here in WV, and we are in “higher elevation.”
Tell Governor Morrissey we love him. We appreciate his work for vaccine freedoms and his respect for Life.
I appreciate y’all’s Substack work. God bless you both.
It's been a couple of years since I made butter, but I decided I'd rather drink the cream than make butter with it. One thing I remember from my childhood is drinking buttermilk. My grandmother insisted it was wonderful, I thought it was awful. How times change--now I love it, but the real stuff, not the cultured stuff.
My grandfather would come in from the barn after milking and pour the milk through a separator, then he'd hand the cream to my grandmother. We grandkids used to take turns (at least, the girls did) making butter. Gram had a wooden container with a crank on it and it was our job to turn it, and my sister and I would take turns, handing it off when our arms gave out.
Oh, no! Did I say grandkids? GrandCHILDREN. Kids are goats.
Thank you for the instructions for making butter. I'd like to try this at some point.
Some weeks ago, I described my efforts at making ice cream (two batches, mint chocolate chip & carrot cake) with my newly ordered equipment. On Kroger's website, I read the reviews beforehand for heavy cream options, the best of which was just above the midpoint for the ratings spectrum.
I bought the best of what was available in the refrigerated section: Horizon Organic Heavy Whipping Cream. $6.29. Per pint. If I recall correctly, I needed 3 pints to make 2 batches. A 48 oz container of Breyers currently shows at $5.99. Still, no regrets. My ice cream was great.
hmmm. sounds just a bit easier than milking your own! or finding a farm anywhere nearby.
Greetings from the Thumb Coat of Michigan! Congratulations on your ice cream making venture! As to content, homemade is much better for you! Check out the ingredients of Breyer's. Keep in mind the difference between "value" versus "cost;" homemade from applesauce to ice cream to hot cocoas (made from scratch), to bread , t0 stew and soup - all better for your body! In our house, we have now set aside a half day a week for baking! using organic ingredients! Scones, breads, cookies, pies popovers. Amazing how rapidly the good stuff disappears! I'd like to taste your mint chocolate chip. Slainte!
Yeah but...Bryers is not Organic. They push taste. Tout sustainable and natural...except not when sourced from other suppliers - which they nevertheless incorporate into their finished products. Try Strauss Ice Cream (if not making your own) - at least they are Organic.
Took me too long to wake up to changes at Breyers. I remember when they ran commercials poking fun at less than wholesome ingredients. From 1984, long before Unilever took the reins:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnRrsodj0O8
A preliminary Happy Anniversary!! The way the weather has been 40 degrees will feel like you’re in Key West. Hopefully some of that ice will melt. Only 59 today in Key West for a high…
Like. A high in Key West, must have the Coral Reefers in temperature shock!
I’m coming to Key West this Sunday for a few days. Hope it warms up!!!! lol
Here’s the forecast
https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/key-west/33040/weather-forecast/332323
🤣 love it. Thanks for a good laugh. Given this weather we need it
If I were a fly on the wall, I would share my hope that you and Jill take a little more time for yourselves just to settle. (Your Key West anniversary celebration adventure sounds fabulous! Congratulations!) You guys are so precious -- and this level of activity/travel sounds overly stressful, at least to my sensitive little fly ears :) God bless you both.