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Anyone here drink fresh goat or cow milk? I grew up on goat and cow milk. We ate homemade cottage cheese and butter from cow milk.

For the last ten some odd years I've only drank raw whole milk, i.e., not pasteurized and not homogenized. It's certainly fresh, in that it stays tasty for about two weeks in the fridge after bottling. I have a source for this in a small, mom and pop, grocery store. Due to Florida law, it must be marked "Not For Human Consumption" "Only For Feeding To Calves." It sells like crazy, and I guarantee that no one feeds it to calves.

Fresh, raw, warm milk makes me gag.

Nothing finer than fresh milk that is just above the freezing temperature.


Maybe just an ice crystal floating in it..........

Last glass of white milk that I drank came out of 'ole Suzie, ornery old cow she was..............

Dad got rid of her, and I haven't drunk white milk since..................

Only an occasional store bought chocolate............

Half n half on cereal is an acceptable substitute...............

I miss fresh milk. I don’t like any milk warm

I've been drinking farm fresh raw milk for years and could never go back to store milk. There is also another farm that sells pasteurized full fat chocolate milk that is out of this world good.

I grew up on it but have been drinking the grocery store milk for over 30 years

get it delivered twice a week, good stuff. Nothing like pulling the cream off the top and making home made ice cream.

Don’t drink milk much anymore other than when the wife makes chocolate chip cookies.

Then it has to be out of the frosty glass beer mugs I keep in the freezer.

Other than that I only get my dairy thru cheeses and cremes now.

Hey kid keep your paws off my cookies...

Me too Used to dip it right out of the bulk tank every day.
After being away from it for so long, it is highly possible that I've lost my immunities to all the bugs and bacteria that are swimming around in it these days.

grew up drinking fresh milk that was brought to the house, strained, and put in the frigidaire.

plenty of cream from the guernsey and jersey milk cows that were also pets.

the extra milk was allowed to clabber and then churned for butter.

never made any cheese. but did pour spoilt milk to the hogs.

We skimmed the milk as soon as the cream floated to the top, and made sweet cream butter. We did let some milk clabber for cooking. My dad used it like buttermilk with cornbread, but I always did and still do use sweet milk. My dad had ulcers, and had a lot of his stomach removed, and that concoction was supposed to be good for them. I would still drink fresh milk if I could get it without owning a milk cow. miles

I expect the hogs had an entirely different view on whether the milk was spoilt.

They had (have) a different view of it than I did (do) whether it was spoiled or not.

my mother had a case of ulcers while i was growing up. the local doc put her on raw goat's milk as a part of the trtmnt. at first we had a nubian goat, also a pet, that would eat grass, weeds, shrubs, and anything else she could get a hold of. she had the "dangle" thingys that hung down from her throat. it cleared my mom's ulcer & stomach issues right up. we later had a white milk goat, a sannaien maybe?

nowadays, no milk cows in the community at all. my nephew is herdsman for a commercial operation. it's high science, gov't regulations, and dollars & sense. the cows are extra.

our local ingles sells goat's milk regular, it's been sanitized or whatever. it doesn't seem to be anything like the raw goat's milk we had when i was growing up.

A splash still makes a cup of good coffee even better.

milk is for cooking, cold cereal, coffee, hot chocolate, sometimes refreshing to drink when very cold, as another mentioned