OK, when I was a very small child, we had a dog named Agnes who had puppies. I barely remember her. I am not sure I really do remember her -- maybe I just remember being told stories. Anyway, apparently a neighborhood boy was caught nursing from Agnes. He said he wanted to see what dog milk tasted like! I would imagine it tastes much like any other milk. I tasted a drop of my own milk back in the day and honestly, it was very much like cow's milk, but sweeter. Most milks are quite similar, superficially. If anybody really wants to go down a rabbit hole, the medical textbook by Dr. Ruth Lawrence called "Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession" has a chart comparing the composition of dozens of mammal milks. (In a different life, I worked with nursing moms and had all sorts of books like this.)
Things I have wondered while breastfeeding: is my love for dairy-based desserts fundamentally infantile? Would human milk (because sweeter) be notably more difficult for the lactose intolerant? Is the comparatively greater effort required to pull colostrum like sucking down a triple thick milkshake? (Though perhaps it tastes more like kefir.)
Wow! I never heard of caudle, but this seems adjacent to a special-named archaic dessert drink I wonder about sometimes, which is: syllabub.
You’re making me worry, though. Hot and creamy sounds so cozy for autumn but hard to handle in the summertime, don’t you think? Maybe this gives us a few months to get ahead on planning traditional beverages for the autumn festal circuit?
OK, when I was a very small child, we had a dog named Agnes who had puppies. I barely remember her. I am not sure I really do remember her -- maybe I just remember being told stories. Anyway, apparently a neighborhood boy was caught nursing from Agnes. He said he wanted to see what dog milk tasted like! I would imagine it tastes much like any other milk. I tasted a drop of my own milk back in the day and honestly, it was very much like cow's milk, but sweeter. Most milks are quite similar, superficially. If anybody really wants to go down a rabbit hole, the medical textbook by Dr. Ruth Lawrence called "Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession" has a chart comparing the composition of dozens of mammal milks. (In a different life, I worked with nursing moms and had all sorts of books like this.)
Things I have wondered while breastfeeding: is my love for dairy-based desserts fundamentally infantile? Would human milk (because sweeter) be notably more difficult for the lactose intolerant? Is the comparatively greater effort required to pull colostrum like sucking down a triple thick milkshake? (Though perhaps it tastes more like kefir.)
You might like caudle-based dessert history on that case! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudle
I'm calling it, it's hot caudle summer. I will make this happen. All parties will be caudle parties.
Wow! I never heard of caudle, but this seems adjacent to a special-named archaic dessert drink I wonder about sometimes, which is: syllabub.
You’re making me worry, though. Hot and creamy sounds so cozy for autumn but hard to handle in the summertime, don’t you think? Maybe this gives us a few months to get ahead on planning traditional beverages for the autumn festal circuit?
The summer equivalent of the caudle, in my opinion, is the pavlova!
Geez, men would rather go off and build Rome than go to therapy!
Remus might like this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6428kmSJhok&ab_channel=CarparkRecords