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Wain Brown interviewing Susie Zosak -7-
8/12/72
Tape3-1

it would boil like a cooker you have a canner a cooker but we'd make a big pot so I'd have to put the water in a (?) but if you put it right on the stove it would get burned on the bottom, would get black marks to it so you'd put it in hot water and they put it in cloth like they make cheese, do you know how they make cheese from sour milk, did you ever see how they make it from skim milk, you know the cottage cheese that you buy well that's what they make it from sour milk, we used to have a cow and you know that milk, you didn't put it in other containers, you had crocks, yeh a 4 qt. crock we didn't sell all the milk so you put that in first of all and you know in the summer when it was hot and the cow would lay down on the hot coal dirt you had to wash the thing off and had to was her whatchcall it

WB Udders

SZ Yeh and wash that off nice maybe she had a little crack or something you put on some butter that wasn't salted unsweetened butter before you got to milk her I could milk a cow, we had one here and that bugger she almost killed me so then when you put the milk down in the cellar the best thing to do, see we didn't have no ice, there was no ice man, so I used to take the milk even when I sold, one time when we had a cow I sold about 9 qts. but not long because the cow kicked and Pop got rid of her right away, I hated it I'd rather get a book now and then and have that because it came to about $40 a month when we sold it and we had enough of our own see it was genuine guernsey, well she wasn't registered but her people, I mean her mother was because Coxe's had her and when Coxe's went out of business my husband went down and bought this first calf and you know she wasn't in, Gregory bought her, Gregory down on the farms there when I asked how's the cow, most of the cows that you get should get 3, 4 qts. at a time the one gave you 10 qts. at a time because she was a regular Guernsey and the milk was good that you can ask his he said "I never drink milk that came fresh from the cow but this milk is different," it had a regular Guernsey taste