Brocante enamel milk cooker with a green edge and golden piping

Brocante enamel milk cooker with a green edge and golden piping. 

• Date of manufacture: 1950s.

Description
Cream-coloured milk cooker decorated with coloured piping over the centre and a green border on the top. This cooker has a sturdy bakelite handle. This milk cooker is equipped with a V-shaped spout.

Covered with a slightly curved, rounded lid with a large hole in the middle and six smaller holes on the edge. Black bakelite button to lift the lid.

This cooker is constricted one third from the top so that an inner edge forms on which the lid rests. This brocante enamel milk cooker is a single-walled, high pan in which people used to cook milk. Can still be used, but nowadays mainly serves as decoration in the rural kitchen.

Condition
This milk cooker is in good vintage condition with traces of use and age-related traces of wear. The lid is missing some of the enamel under the button.

Size

• Height: 16 cm.
• Width: 25 cm (with handle and spout).
• Diameter: 17.4 cm.

The milk cooker
In the past, the milkman came to the customers' door. Most women did the household at home and found the service at the door handy. The classic milkman didn't have as many dairy snacks and fruit yoghurts as there are in the supermarket these days. He mainly sold milk, and occasionally a bottle of custard.

In addition to milk in bottles, the milkman sold so-called raw milk till far into the sixties of the last century. This was milk that came from underneath the cow and was not sterilized or pasteurized in the milk factory. The loose, raw milk was stored in a milk canister with a tap and was drained on the spot in a measuring cup, which was emptied into the pan or jug ​​of the customer. Loose milk was cheaper than bottled milk.

The loose milk had to be boiled first. It sometimes contained diseases that were harmful to humans. Cooking helped prevent infections. For this cooking, you had a special, high pan: the milk cooker. Often the milk cooker was enamelled, and it always had a lid. The lid had holes along the edge. The holes prevented the milk to boil over. When the boiling milk bubbled up, it dripped back through the holes into the cooker again, without flowing over the edge, on the newly polished stove.

With food becoming increasingly popular, directly from the farmer, consumers have been buying more raw milk in recent years, such as from the cow or goat. Even now, boiling the milk briefly is a smart precaution to prevent diseases. Because "pure nature" is not the same as "without health risks".

There are still milk cookers on the market. They sometimes look almost the same as the milk cookers from the 50s, only now no longer enamelled, but made of stainless steel. You can cook the raw milk in it. Nowadays milk cookers are primarily intended to make the milk hot for the cafe latte. So the milk cooker is totally trendy again!

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