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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Nov 26, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

> I had a Jersey cow once. I would set her milk out after milking, with
> or without adding some cultured buttermilk. It produced wonderful
> clabbered milk or cultured buttermilk respectively. The cream, of
> course, rose to the top; I used that in place of sour cream. I've been
> indifferent to commercial sour cream since. Oh my, that was good
> stuff.

If one can use the production one way or another and is amenable to  
the twice-a-day milking requirement, there is nothing better than a  
small Jersey cow for family dairy needs. And they are so sweet they  
are kissable.