Those Were The Days
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189917)
Boise, Idaho
April 28, 2022 6:45pm CST
I could take a quart of milk out of the fridge on the porch. Then go into my grandmother's kitchen, put a dipping spoon into the quart of milk to cover the neck, and pour off the cream into a bowl. I would whip it well for several minutes with the old egg beater. Then when the cream was fluffed just right I would add sugar and vanilla. So good to sit there and eat it freshly made.
I haven't had fresh-made whipped cream for many years. It's time for grandma's strawberry cake.
How long has it been since you had homemade whipped cream?
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
29 Apr 22
Last Saturday. I made a strawberry shortcake.
4 layers of pound cake with a layer of strawberries and whipping cream on each layer and on top.
I like to keep heavy whipping cream on hand. I'll make some for cocoa or a flavored coffee.
It's really good if you add Bailey's Irish Cream to the whipping cream 
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Apr 22
Must be nice to have all those fixin's. Bailey's is good stuff.
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
29 Apr 22
@celticeagle
My father-in-law was President of Engineering for General Mills for 20 years. Every Christmas, we get a package from General Mills with snacks, sides, cake mixes, frostings, cookies and sometimes a cookbook.
General Mills still sends all of his kids the Christmas package even though my father-in-law passed away 35 years ago.
The pound cake was in the package this Christmas.
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@oahuwriter (26773)
• United States
29 Apr 22
Believe it or not, never. I'd have those canisters you push the top of, for the whip cream & now tubs of Cool Whip.
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
29 Apr 22
You will never know how good the real thing is then. Unless you make some for yourself of course.
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@BarBaraPrz (51836)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
29 Apr 22
Years and years, I would imagine.
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@LindaOHio (222624)
• United States
29 Apr 22
Probably 60 years. I remember one time my mother whipped hers too long and made butter.
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@celticeagle (189917)
• Boise, Idaho
30 Apr 22
Getting too vigorous can cause that to happen.
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