When I started thinking about the Norfolk Diet and its practicalities a particularly nubby conundrum was the milkman and what to do with him. So to speak. We have milk delivered three times a week by a pleasant chap in a Dairy Crest milk float. I had a feeling that the milk was probably not Norfolk and a bit of Twitter research (thank you Gary from Creospace) confirmed it. Mostly. It turns out that milk from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex goes from the dairies to a central Dairy Crest distribution point in Essex and then some of it comes back to our milkman. So there is some proportion of Norfolk milk in our milk bottles I assume, but normally for Norfolk Diet purposes I wouldn’t really count it as Norfolk.
But I do think the concept of a milkman is A Good Thing, for all sorts of reasons, not least that it’s one of the few services of any sort that people in our middle-of-nowhere village have. And if we didn’t have a milkman what ever would we do for risqué jokes?
So, what to do?
We do often supplement our regular milk delivery with some bought milk, so the, making them up as I go along, rule will be that the milkman stays as a semi-exception and any milk over and above his that I buy will be from local dairies. Which round here means milk supplied by either Pointens at Stody or Nortons at Freckenham. And very nice milk it is too.
Today’s round up of food
Breakfast: Owl toast with Wood Berry Farm Strawberry and Blackberry Compote and a glass of apple juice
Lunch: Leek and potato soup, recipe here
Supper: Parsnip and Apple soup. Yes I know that’s two lots of soup but it turns out I’m eating on my own this evening so I’ll be hanging on to the steaks that I got yesterday until tomorrow. It’s easy and I like soup! So there.
All veg bought from Crowe’s little greengrocers in Holt.
Liberal quantities of tea throughout the day.
My husband grew up on a dairy where the milk was pasteurised and then sent out again with the roundsmen. They collected the milk in churns early in the morning so it was ready to go out next day. He didn’t like our milkman because he left it on the step at 3.30 in the morning and so it hadn’t been refrigerated for several hours by the time we brought it in and he always swore it was going off by the time the present day milkman delivered it anyway!