Nice cold, ice cold

My relationship with milk is a checkered one. Having grown up abroad, milk tended to be the UHT variety, unless you were really unlucky and had to have the powdered stuff. So you used it when you had to, rather than for pleasure. Coming back to the UK to real fresh white stuff was a pleasure, until enrolled in a local primary school I was met with one of those third-of-a-pint glass bottles with a straw. They were theoretically a good idea, at least until you let them sit outside in the sun until morning break. Even the wrath of the fierce nuns couldn't get me to choke one down.

But there are some occasions that demand a glass of the white stuff. When I played hockey at University, standard post-match refuelling involved a pint of milk in the bar. Nothing is more perfect with a PB&J sandwich on brown bread and then there are these brownies.

Lorraine Pascale's oreo brownies (recipe here) which are even better the day after you make them. And even more so with a cold glass of milk.

Comments

[The List Writer]

Those brownies are so darn good. Gill and I have been taking them on our weekday walks for mid-morning sustenance.

I love a glass of ice cold milk to drink when I am really thirsty, but our family is divided. My daughter shudders when she even sees anyone else drinking it.

[dottycookie]

I made those brownies this week. The next day? They barely lasted the evening (but in our defence I did make a small batch).

[Claire]

Thanks Ali - 2 days before I give up chocolate for lent!!! I will keep them in mind for 42 days time !!

[kirsten]

oh, yeah, it's gotta be COLD. and i like milk best in a mug or a paper cup. weird?

did you play field hockey or ice hockey in college? i played field hockey in high school - but i rarely run into anyone on this side of the country that knows what that is!

[Amaranthine]

Oh I am so with you about the third pint bottles of milk. I haven't drunk milk at all since then. Blurgh!

[Petit Filoux]

I've seen those on another blog and I must say they look very moorish! May be tempted to eat it all on my own though, so best stay away!
About the milk, I drank UHT milk as well in France, very few people use fresh milk - I found it weird when I first got here that habits were so different

[Gina]

Those brownies I shall definitely make... but the milk... I'm afraid those warm bottles of school milk put me off completely.

[Jane]

Oh the horrors of school milk, especially in summer- still instantly recalled after 40 years. When I was very small (at a state nursery) we also had compulsory codliver oil. We won't dwell on that - think about brownies, quick!

[periwinkle]

I think school milk put me off milk for life .. I'll only have it freezing cold on cereal and even then just enough to make the cereal wet -- When I was younger my mam would make us have a glass of milk at every tea time and I would always tell her it was sour.. serves me right really as one day it was actually sour and I was made to drink it as she didn't believe me !!

[Emma]

Brownies with double decker biscuits inside them? Count me in.

I have a mug of warm milk most nights before bed. I sold my rocking chair but I do have fingerless gloves, a scarf that could pass as a muffler and a vintage granny blanket. What is wrong with this picture? I am not yet forty!

[Gill]

This is my favourite recipe right now - just so damn delish! I love milk too, we get ours from the milkman and i still find it lovely to find it on the doorstep!
G
xx

[Paola]

Thank God we don't have Oreo's around here ...
and we're not used to drinking cold milk, nobody does here, I know, it's bad.

[The Coffee Lady]

I've made no secret of my love of milk. I don't even need brownies. But I could be swayed...

[Monica]

ok, Oreos? I held them responsible for gaining 10kg in the ten months I spent as an au pair State-side. They're simply too wonderful. And did you know they were first 'created' almost 100 years ago? Amazing.

Oh they're so good. You're an evil friend. How could I ignore such a recipe?

[kristina]

Oooh I really do need to get my book out now! And ice cold milk is just the thing with chocolate. But definitely not warm milk--eeeuw!

K x

[PinkCat]

Those brownies look great. I'm so pleased Lorraine has been so popular - she's lovely.

I love milk - cold warm or hot, even though I went though a phase between 7 and 15 of not drinking it. That's what I blame for not growing any taller since I was 13! x

[domesticali]

Field hockey - ice hockey's pretty rare over here as there aren't that many rinks.

Ali x

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[French Knots]

I had measles when I was about 7 and after that I couldn't stand the taste of milk, bleeuurgh!
But the brownies look good enough to force a glass of milk down.

[Amanda]

I loved Margaret Thatcher: she took my milk away.

[lina]

Miam miam (as they say in French).I bought a packet of oreos before going on holiday with the intent on making these. I have never mastered the art of brownie making - that elusive gooeyness. So I just ate the oreos instead.

[Gina]

ali its way past my bedtime..and thanks now all I'm thinking about is eating a brownie. :) Looks so yummy.

[UK lass in US]

Ah, I remember those wee glass milk bottles fondly: mainly because I never drank one at school... even after hockey games.

Tch, I wish that my kids could play hockey. I wonder if my parents still have my stick. Maybe I could introduce it to the LA area.

I'm ignoring the brownie picture. I'm trying to be good

[Kate]

Imagine living in a house where there are brownies left to eat the next day...