Ruth Stone on Milk – ‘really lovely, creamy cream’

We used to have to put them in the big churns and we had a platform outside the farmhouse along Forest Road where father put two churns and each day somebody came up with an open backed lorry and took them and I think I’m correct in saying, ‘cos I heard this from one of the family years ago, that our milk went to Cambridge, but we used to have milk that everybody in the houses round had some milk and they could always come down for some milk if they brought their jug.

We didn’t do it in bottles, we had to use jugs (laughs). They were Jersey, so it was quite rich milk and lovely cream when Grandma used to put it on her kitchen range and heat it, you know like warm, and then let the fat of the milk come up to the top which was really lovely, creamy cream.