Let’s get to know each others butter

[Rebecca Riot]

We made some at primary school using the cream from school milk - it was easy enough as a process but does take some elbow grease if you're doing it by hand.

Ewww, you've just brought back some horrible memories of school milk!

 

[danny la rouge]

We like Grahams, but only have it when it’s on offer and therefore cheaper or as cheap as own brand. We currently do have Graham’s.



We used to have spreadable butter as well (not instead), but stopped when Mrs LR read dire health warnings about them being ultra processed and with death causing seed oil. She likes to take onboard dire health warnings about ultra processed food.

I currently have butter, but used to not as I try to reduce dairy. However I need to find a vegan spread there isn’t dire health warning about.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Ewww, you've just brought back some horrible memories of school milk!

Yeah, it could be grim especially if the crates had been left outside in the sun. I think it put me off for life.

 

[danny la rouge]

school milk

I remember paying for school milk with sixpence pieces, which stood in for a 2 1/2p coin at the time: the cost of the milk.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Does anyone here buy cream and whip it into butter themselves? I have a colleague who does, and she's almost as lazy as me, so it can't be too difficult.

According to the BBC you can do it with a glass jar and a marble.

I've done this. A 1/2lb block of butter would cost about 50 quid if you bought the cream and made it into butter.

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Yeah, it could be grim especially if the crates had been left outside in the sun. I think it put me off for life.

My school use to put the bottles on the radiator in the winter to warm the milk up a bit before break time which made it even more disgusting.

The only way I can drink milk now is ice cold from the fridge.

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[Chz]

I currently have butter, but used to not as I try to reduce dairy. However I need to find a vegan spread there isn’t dire health warning about

I doubt that such a foodstuff exists! It's all going to kill you. And it's all good for you. Olive oil, dairy, lard, sunflower oil, whatever.

You'd think something like apples would be safe, and then someone jumps in to tell you they're full of cyanide.

 

[Silas Loom]

I remember paying for school milk with sixpence pieces, which stood in for a 2 1/2p coin at the time: the cost of the milk.

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School milk was free. The milk monitors were scamming you.

At my first primary, we were allowed to pour whatever milk we didn’t want from our little bottles into a huge vat that was carted off to the kitchens to be converted, presumably, into custard. Backwash custard.

 

[danny la rouge]

School milk was free. The milk monitors were scamming you.

I’m obviously younger than you!

Thatcher was called the “milk snatcher” because she took away free school milk when in Heath’s cabinet.

 

[danny la rouge]

I doubt that such a foodstuff exists! It's all going to kill you. And it's all good for you. Olive oil, dairy, lard, sunflower oil, whatever.

You'd think something like apples would be safe, and then someone jumps in to tell you they're full of cyanide.

Yeah, I know. And one picks ones battles. I was being playful.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I once made butter by putting two mice in a bucket of cream.

i thought that was how you made mice pudding

 

[ska invita]

I don't really eat butter. Several months ago I saw some crumpets and had a sudden desire to eat them, so I bought some. Afterwards, I gave the rest of the butter away. I don't rememer what brand it was (probably Tesco own brand), but it was certainly salted.

Peanut butter is great on crumpets

 

[Sue]

My school use to put the bottles on the radiator in the winter to warm the milk up a bit before break time which made it even more disgusting.

The only way I can drink milk now is ice cold from the fridge.

Ours used to sit outside for hours in a crate so in winter was pretty frozen. Then it'd sit under a radiation so when we came to drink it, it was a mix of warm with bits of ice in.

 

[Sue]

Peanut butter is great on crumpets

Peanut butter is not great on anything.

 

[Elpenor]

I’m obviously younger than you!

Thatcher was called the “milk snatcher” because she took away free school milk when in Heath’s cabinet.

I think some local education authorities continued it afterwards for a while.

 

[ouirdeaux]

Peanut butter is great on crumpets

I don't like peanut butter on any kind of toasted bread. But what is unexpectedly good on crumpets is the whey of cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is largely disgusting, a flavourless white amorphous lump that can generally only be eaten if disguised by things with flavour, and even then it's not easy. It's a disgrace to the good name of cheese. But if you dribble the whey into the holes of the crumpet, it's divine. Unfortunately, this leaves you with a lot of useless curds.

 

[danny la rouge]

I don't like peanut butter on any kind of toasted bread. But what is unexpectedly good on crumpets is the whey of cottage cheese. Cottage cheese is largely disgusting, a flavourless white amorphous lump that can generally only be eaten if disguised by things with flavour, and even then it's not easy. It's a disgrace to the good name of cheese. But if you dribble the whey into the holes of the crumpet, it's divine. Unfortunately, this leaves you with a lot of useless curds.

Have you tried Crowdie? It’s a cottage cheese type but it has a nicer texture, similar to a crumbly Boursin or something.

Homemade is best, but good commercial brands are widely available in Scotland.

Crowdie - Wikipedia

sco.wikipedia.org

 

[ska invita]

Peanut butter is not great on anything.

Tahini?

 

[ska invita]

Just back from the supermarket, saw this

Anchor Squeezy | Anchor Butter

Discover the convenience of Anchor Squeezy! Save time baking with no melting, enjoy easier cooking, and savour delicious buttery flavour in every squeeze.

www.anchorbutter.co.uk

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Homer simpson gear

 

[Silas Loom]

Just back from the supermarket, saw this

Anchor Squeezy | Anchor Butter

Discover the convenience of Anchor Squeezy! Save time baking with no melting, enjoy easier cooking, and savour delicious buttery flavour in every squeeze.

www.anchorbutter.co.uk

Traditional and strawberry?

 

[ouirdeaux]

67% rapeseed oil. 8% butter.

 

[andysays]

I think some local education authorities continued it afterwards for a while.

Yes, the Inner London Education Authority, whose junior school I attended, continued free school milk while I was there.

 

[tim]

I think some local education authorities continued it afterwards for a while.

Sadistic child hating bastards

 

[Skinny Ethel]

Zionists i suspect.

 

[Rebecca Riot]

Sadistic child hating bastards

Probably the only good thing Thatcher did was getting rid of school milk. I don't care how good it was for you, that stuff we use to get in school was vile.

 

[ska invita]

Probably the only good thing Thatcher did was getting rid of school milk. I don't care how good it was for you, that stuff we use to get in school was vile.

True and the rush of power to the head of chosen milk monitors probably created some right bastards

 

[krtek a houby]

Peanut butter is great on crumpets

Like it on toast with banana

 

[Happy Tree]

I remember the milk carton being this weird pyramid shape. Then they changed it to a normal brick shape. I think it was brown with yellow and blue lettering. It sat on top of a cupboard getting warm and you gulped it down quickly because it was rank. I'm guessing it was probably semi-skimmed.