Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 09-22-19 08:23 <=-

Having been forced to drink it as a child, I only used it as a fortifying and/or called-for ingredient in cooking and baking...

I read horrifying and uncalled-for.

For drinking, I found it so, but not so much for cooking/baking... :)

If the other ingredients were flavorful enough, maybe.
Certainly the additional expense in butter and spices
would outweigh the savings from using dry milk.

Generally I wasn't doing it for the cost savings... the dry milk would
be in addition to the whole milk that would be part of the liquid ingredients... more of a nutritional additive... :)

I could have used some maybe recently - I was making a cake
and we didn't have any milk, so I just omitted it.

So you just used water....?

Thankfully, I never had issues with drinking milk, and still don't.. my parents also went to powdered milk as a cost-cutting measure... and for some of my siblings it was perfectly satisfactory (and they still use
the stuff)... But had I refused to drink it back then, I knew I
couldn't get away with it... not sure what any alternative would have been back then...

If that's all they knew, that could be understood.

For some of them, it might have been... except that there was that
school milk in cartons... of course the waxy taste probably evened out
the comparison to the "funny" milk... :)

I was about to say, school milk is no prize.

Indeed.

Some of us were just too stubborn.

And showed it in various ways.... ;)

Well, yeah. What's the point of stubbornness if
you don't show it?

Mine wasn't always noticed... ;)

You didn't stamp your little feet and threaten to hold
your breath until you turned blue? That was my sister's
technique.

No, I just quietly didn't do something, generally... other siblings were
more dramatic... but they tended to get in trouble more for their
resistance than I did...

My father used to do that, telling me that we had to go to
the Pee oppo leez drugstore and leaving his single-digit
genius to figure out what the heck he was talking about.
There were dozens of those, some intentional and some not.
My mother never saw the humor in any of this.

Daddy was similar.... fortunately, I guess, Mommy did see the humor, and went along with it, though I don't remember her indulging in it much if
at all... :)

So in that regard you took more after her? You seem to be
the appreciator here more than the perpetrator. Unlike
both Ruths, for example.

My mind just isn't so inclined to think quickly... sometimes stuff just
slips out, though.... ;)

Maybe the propellant has changed over the years...? Or your lungs are more sensitive now...?

They tell you it's nitrous oxide - sort of a big neon
sign saying "get fat and get high."

I've always liked the whipped cream by itself... but usually propelled
it out into my hand... ;)

I usually whipped it myself with a whisk.

Neither the canned stuff nor the heavy cream were often in our house
when I was a child... I've bought both on my own, generally the heavy
cream, but have often used it without whipping it, too...

Oh, yes... and I think I also said that I'd have no problem myself
eating the raw fat... she probably thought me the insane savage... (G)

Sacerdote and I used to creep out the echo people and
the ladies of his household by eating raw bacon.

ISTR joining in with you two at the Clam Crawl picnic I attended...
I still do grab the occasional slice of raw bacon, the few times I
actually have bacon to cook... ;) Tasty stuff, after all... ;)

Caution: eating raw pork is not recommended in countries
with minimal hygiene and poor animal husbandry practices.
Do this at your own risk.

(So I noticed in the recipe you appended below) ;) I might be more
careful elsewhere....

Our extended family meals tend to be joint efforts... my siblings, with their larger families, often also are joint efforts, even within just their own family...

If I were serving a big meal based on a big joint I might
consider a joint effort, but in general I prefer to do
everything. After the last party, though, in which I left
two dishes in the fridge until after all the guests were
gone, it might be time for me to assign a helper to
help with or at least remind me about each dish.

Sounds like that last at least would be helpful... ;)

Lilli was bugging me as I cooked the other day and said What
can I do? I was silent. Get the bleep out of the kitchen, she
suggested. I said, OK, get the bleep out of the kitchen. She
was sore for several minutes until she realized she'd brought
it on herself.

Good that she did figure it out... ;)

ttyl neb

... There's nothing like a good steak - unfortunately this wasn't one.

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