In search of a pot!
>> Saturday, 12 September 2009
Boiled & ready for drinking. Look at the cream on top!
I ran myself ragged this past Tuesday in search of a pot in which to scald milk. I visited eleven stores before I found the kind of pot I was looking for – one with the capacity to hold a gallon of milk and the requisite heavy bottom. Four and a half hours after setting out from home, I returned, tired and hot, but triumphant. I had my milk-pot! Want to know why and how it all started? Click here to read the column.
I have friends and my mom's visiting. Last week, I wrote about my list of things for mom to bring for me, well, in the case of Aunty Sarah, it was a stunning surprise, among the things that I had requested, she surprised me and brought sweet treats - that I've never had before in my life - all the way from India. Gosh, some of us foodies really are spoilt! Here's what she brought:
I'm taking my time going through them.
This is one of my mother's favourite meals for dinner - dhal & roti. The dhal is poured onto the plate and the roti then torn to pieces and mixed together. Dhal, I love but dhal and roti, together like this, not my thing :)
Have a good weekend everyone!
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all my favourite comfort food :)
It may reveal my age but I remember as a child when the milkman came to our house twice a week. In those days homes were built with a box built right in the wall for him to put your milk each week which was deemed more efficient. As a child though I looked forward to having BEEP which was an orange drink supplied by the milk company more so than the milk itself:D
Lovely column! When we were younger, the milkman/woman used to bring the cow/buffalo home and milk her in front of the mistress' eyes - that was a way of ensuring we weren't getting milk that was watered down. Then came a time when they would bring it in cans and there would always be exchanges about how watery/not the milk was. Milk was also not freely available those days - and there was resistance to packed milk from the dairy, which was also not easily available after a certain time in the morning and afternoon.
Now most of us use dairy milk. And cow's milk is usually difficult to get - it's not widely available.
I never had a milkman (they were long-gone/obsolete by the time I was born), but the memories people share are so fun!! Wish I could have had one.
Mmmhh, fabulous! there's nothing better than fresh milk with cream!
Nice food!
Cheers,
Rosa
looks like matzo brei - you know eggs and matzo scrambled....the fresh milk looks awesome!
WAOUWWWW!!!!! THE MİLK İS DELİCİOUS AND THE CREAM FABULİOUS!!!!!!!!
ALWAYS HAVE OUR COUNTRY A FRESH MILK!!!(SORRY FOR MY ENGLİSH)
GOOD WEEKEND MY FRİEND:)
hey girl! you spelled taste wrong in your first photo.
I always enjoy reading your posts. Did you read my post on banana cream tarts? I tried to go back in the day.
Fresh milk! Yes. In India they have what is called a milk cooker which whistles when the milk has been boiled and starts to rise.
Cynthia i am shocked to hear it too you 1 year to aproach the milk man.
Back at home everymorning the milkman brough fresh milk and even now my mom gets hr milk like that.
11 shops you were indeed determined to find theperfect bowl.
Cynthia, I've never had un-pasturized cow's milk before. I wonder how different it tastes from pasturized milk? Now, what's this about eating the milk skim with sugar? I thought it was no good and to be thrown away? I learned something, yet again, from your blog. :-)
~Keva
Wow to the milk!
Yum! to the food! Yum! Yum! Yum!
Paz
hmm, dal with roti, that is the exact way I enjoy it too! Looks so good!!
wow! Fresh milk.....you are going retro on all of us. Your shiny new pot looks like its up for the challenge. enjoy all that fresh milk!
Me too I remember to well the milkman coming to our house on our farm. Everyone enjoyed that moment so much except me because I did not drink milk. But I did enjoy the chocolate milk :)
I remember going to a neighbors house, waiting for them to finish milking the cow and bringing the warm fresh milk home.I don't even remember what fresh milk tastes like anymore!
oooooooooh yumm i love indian sweets
Wow...my fav cashew barfi is there on the plate too :) The sweets look yum!
nice..wanted to try it.
WOW! The only time I had fresh goat's milk butter was on a small island in Greece. My grandmother grew up on a farm in Brooklyn and her brothers were milkmen. I love the pot.The treats look delicious.
My grand father had a milk buisness & part time farmer. He milked the cows & goats!!
there is nothing better then fresh milk from the farm!!
It would be nice to be able to try fresh cows milk one day.
Is that similar to cream top?
Wow, that's so exciting...to have such fresh milk. Do you boil it and then chill it? It's kind of a riot that you're lactose intolerant and you're going to such lengths to get milk straight from the cow.
Enjoy your visit with Mom!
I grew up drinking only fresh cow milk. The man would come with 2 large cans hung on the side of his bike to deliver as soon as the cow was milked... there were so many such "milkmen" or "dudhwala". I personally hate milk:-) , but have grown up seeing the milk getting boiled early morning & evening by my mom & grandma & the entire family. we would have to drink a tall glass full morning & evening, which would be big torture for me. I still hate milk, but miss the humble ritual of getting the milk & boiling it.
those sweets are tempting! i recently made Sandesh at home ( a sweet meat from bengal) as i missing it so desperately & hated the unauthentic patch ups that they sell in the indian sweet shops here in USA. 20 of them were gone in a few hours..
Back in Ukraine when I was young we used to vacation in a village and had fresh cow milk every day, it was still warm, best ever!
Ohh Cynthia....this reminds me of my family in first day of Eid, when we all gather in my grandmother's house & she always boiled fresh milk in large pot and the smell of cardamom and saffron all over the place.
I hated it when I was little, but now I love it so much especially with all Arabic Gulf sweets she prepare ;)
Have a good day :D
zainab :)
I'm happy that you finally found the pot you wanted. :)
These days we get pasteurized and packaged milk, but at home in Cochin there's still this guy who brings us fresh milk in glass bottles!
Have fun with those sweets. Looks like kaju katli (cashew burfi), motichoor laddoos and pedas?
some times i use dhal in my gravys :) thanx for the recipe :)
My grandma lives in the country side and the milman come to her house until today, she refuses to drink industrialized milk . In fact the best dulce the leche that I ever made is with this pure mil and butter as well. She teach us when we were child , was so funn.
The pot is beautiful
Those sweets look amazing...and daal and roti? MMMMmmmm. My favorite, too. I miss those Bajan rotis, too. (I think you know I was addicted to Chefette's veggie roti! Not very gourmet...but so tasty.)
I know all the sweet treats are lovely but dare not take a lot of them. Just too sweet for me! Cow milk with tea, simply delicious!
I always use fresh cows milk especially when making some bengali sweets :)
in India, people skim the milk and collect the cream and refrigerate it. churn it and then make ghee out of it..
those sweets are my daughter's favorites!
roti should never be soaked in a plate full of dhal. dip a piece of roti in dhal and eat it immediately :)
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Ooooh!!! Cynthia...u make to drool now for those sweets.. indeed sweet memories from back home..and that boiled milk with cream on top..gosh..no need to taste, smell is enough..to indulge..
I would have never known you were lactose intolerent from the recipes I have seen on your blog. I never liked milk even as a child and I was plagued with fresh milk.You have to tell me where u got that pot from as I need something that size for another venture. That dish ur mom likes look great but i have a feeling it may not be my thing either. Only you can make a glass of cows milk look good in a pic. Stop by the blog this week. I am having creole week.
The cream on top reminds basundi sweet. Cow milk became once upon a time now in India but I grew up with that!
Dhal and roti something unusual!
Mmmm! Dhal and roti look delicious, though I'll have to take your word on them being better separately. :)
Wow look at that creamy top! it all looks fabulous Cynthia.
There is nothing worse than looking everywhere for a kitchen item that you need to make something with...
I love dal and roti mushed up :)
my Mom is from Guyana, and she has told me all about fresh cows milk and how thick he milk's cream is, so when she showed me your milk pictures, I was amazed that she was not exaggerating on how thick the cream is... alI can say is "SEND ME SOME PLEASE"
I may be twelve years old, but I can drink this while driving.
Thanks for the pictures,
Martin Barocas
New York Fan
girlfriend girlfriend girlfriend. dhal and roti were my faves when I was there last summer! i couldn't get enough! as for the milk, hmmm. not my cup of tea, but yay you for finding the pot!
Oh Cynthia, I've never had the pleasure of tasting fresh cows milk. It's on my foodie list of things to do. My mum grew up on a farm as a little girl and it was her job to milk Bessy, Bossy and Prissy -- the three cows. The cat would always hang around and mum would squirt fresh milk into its mouth!
Great looking sweets and dhal and roti -- one of my faves.
mmmm barfi, gulab jamoon ... yum :) Looks like we both had a dal fix as well :)
I know that whenever I pay your blog a visit, I can be assured of something delightfully different!
Thanks so much Cynthia!!
Reminds me of the milkman in India! he used to come at the crack of dawn, we used to call him our alarm clock!
I Love dal-roti like that, soaks up the flavor so well!
And those sweets.............oh! oh! oh!
Cow's milk - slurp! Been ages since I have sampled the delight!
Liked the pics Cynthia!
Also liked the picture of Sil Batta in your previous post.
Wonderful column and beautiful pictures! The milk must be wonderful. I wonder if you've made any homemade yogurt from it? I tried a couple of weeks ago and it didn't solidify. I'll have to try again. :)
Until about a year back there was this lady who used to bring fresh cow's milk for me everyday. moving out of that locality and into a new one has deprived me of my quota of fresh milk....I now use pasteurized milk that is supplied in little packets.
Congrats on finding the perfect pot! You must have been exhausted after 11 stores, I would have been.
Have a nice weekend!
Tiina
I am one of those lucky people who have tried real cow milk, still warm and lots of froth on top:) It happened at my grandma's village, where people raise cows and enjoy their fresh milk every day:) Lovely read, Cynthia.
Hi, I'm brazilian and don't know how to write English correctly. But I would like to say for you that your recipes e photos are so cool.
Cheers,
oh dearest cynthia with your recipes that look as good as i'm sure they taste, how i have missed thee!
Not sure about that fresh cow's milk though. ~.^
wow that Milk looks so pure.........
enjoy the sweets!
wow 11 stores! Very dedicated =)
Wow!! those sweets look inviting , my favourites acually - boondi ladoo, kaju katli and dhoda!
While i love milk products - I have always hated the smell and taste of fresh milk for some reason! It still makes me gag - give me drinking chocolate and milk any day :)
Wow, so much great stuff in this post Cynthia! I love that milk, YUM! I bet it would be good in some coffee with a bit of that cardamom bread!
cardamom bread seems a nice idea. Fresh milk...makes me nostalgic:)
Thanks for the caution dear. I am taking steps to make that person delete that spooky blog.
Hi Cynthia, I love your blog and your recipes!
I'm an italian foodie with a great passion for cooking.
Hope to hear from you,
Elly
forgot to mention in this post that this is how my hubby eats his dal rice (his favorite dal.. mom's recipe) it seems this is the best way he can relish it:-) My kids don't like to see him doing the mushing up.
nice
hey Cinthia...first time here n came following you from 'simply trini'...
you have a great blog as i saw few of your posts..
all my favorite food is here it seems...will surely come back to see more..
First time here. Your blog is great. Daal roti looks good. As you say it is not my thing too :)
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Then came a time when they would bring it in cans and there would always be exchanges about how watery/not the milk was.
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