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Old 28-11-2011, 15:55   #131
sm_counsell
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Re: My early life in Accy 1946-68

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Originally Posted by MargaretR View Post
An old widow named Laycock used to make icecream at her home opposite St Pauls church Ossy, and sold it from a chest freezer parked in her vestibule. That was creamy yellow too, but sometimes had lumps in which was the 'skin' caused when she boiled the milk.
There was no 'pasteurised' or UHT, and herds weren't TB vaccinated.
The option to whole raw milk was sterilised milk which tasted very different.
I remember only too well the husband of Mrs. Laycock (very bad memories)
but I suppose we did egg him on a bit. Don't remember his wife, but he had a little shop on a corner in Commercial St. and sold ice lollies that looked like German army helmets!
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