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.
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.
Posted by: The List Writer | 06 March 2011 at 21:58
I made those brownies this week. The next day? They barely lasted the evening (but in our defence I did make a small batch).
Posted by: dottycookie | 06 March 2011 at 22:37
Thanks Ali - 2 days before I give up chocolate for lent!!! I will keep them in mind for 42 days time !!
Posted by: Claire | 06 March 2011 at 23:09
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!
Posted by: kirsten | 07 March 2011 at 00:27
Oh I am so with you about the third pint bottles of milk. I haven't drunk milk at all since then. Blurgh!
Posted by: Amaranthine | 07 March 2011 at 10:15
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
Posted by: Petit Filoux | 07 March 2011 at 10:57
Those brownies I shall definitely make... but the milk... I'm afraid those warm bottles of school milk put me off completely.
Posted by: Gina | 07 March 2011 at 11:12
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!
Posted by: Jane | 07 March 2011 at 13:26
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 !!
Posted by: periwinkle | 07 March 2011 at 13:45
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!
Posted by: Emma | 07 March 2011 at 13:50
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
Posted by: Gill | 07 March 2011 at 15:08
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.
Posted by: Paola | 07 March 2011 at 15:28
I've made no secret of my love of milk. I don't even need brownies. But I could be swayed...
Posted by: The Coffee Lady | 07 March 2011 at 16:35
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?
Posted by: Monica | 07 March 2011 at 17:21
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
Posted by: kristina | 07 March 2011 at 17:36
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
Posted by: PinkCat | 07 March 2011 at 20:20
Field hockey - ice hockey's pretty rare over here as there aren't that many rinks.
Ali x
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Posted by: domesticali | 08 March 2011 at 15:34
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.
Posted by: French Knots | 08 March 2011 at 19:45
I loved Margaret Thatcher: she took my milk away.
Posted by: Amanda | 08 March 2011 at 21:25
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.
Posted by: lina | 08 March 2011 at 22:54
ali its way past my bedtime..and thanks now all I'm thinking about is eating a brownie. :) Looks so yummy.
Posted by: Gina | 10 March 2011 at 03:52
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
Posted by: UK lass in US | 13 March 2011 at 14:48
Imagine living in a house where there are brownies left to eat the next day...
Posted by: Kate | 13 March 2011 at 21:07