Living in Crete I am able to eat locally produced sheeps yogurt and of course use it in cooking. I was wondering about food values of sheeps yogurt - calcium etc. So had a google and found this very simple and gentle site ...perfect for a Sunday morning. I do realise there will be some people unable to tolerate it but for those of us that can there are some excellent nutritional benefits over cows milk/products.
sheepcentre.co.uk There are of course many other sites to browse.....
Wish I could find where I was reading about milk a few months ago. (Always prefer to have somewhere to point people even if it is not that wonderful a site.) The claim was that, pretty much until industrial times, milk in England was usually from sheep or goats. Milk from cows was the oddity and, mostly, used to feed calves. Was consumed as well but in relatively limited quantities.
I have taken to the stuff from goats - but I consume very little other than on porage oats! (Always black tea and coffee.)
On a purely linguistic basis, I found this interesting, albeit somewhat over the top:
forum.wordreference.com/sho...
You will notice that I have avoided using apostrophes at all in describing the milks from different animals. 
Rod
lol! That was so funny! Some people REALLY have too much time on their hands! Probably me included since I have just read the whole thread...! 
lol!
Louise
xx
Glad you liked.
Am also reminded that the baby Henry Williamson (who wrote Tarka the Otter) was given milk from a donkey for reasons I have now forgotten - though he was certainly very poorly. Apparently it is closer in nutrients to human milk than almost any other animal milk.
Hence the book Donkey Boy in his huge 15-volume semi-autobiography A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.
And I have taken buffalo milk in Sri Lanka but gave camel milk a miss in the middle east.
Wow, Rod, what a fantastic site! Wish I'd found it years ago! Really enjoyed reading some of those threads
Thanks, Grey
After a long lunch with friends I have just returned to the computer ! I once read the book ' Food for Thought ' by Philip Day and he does mention there that cows milk is for baby calves and that the only reason they used the cow for milk was because it was dumb enough to stand still long enough to be milked whilst the other animals just ran !!
To hell with the apostrophes - I just LOVE my sheeps yoghurt !!
Loved the post Rod - thanks !!
A very interesting site Marz, thank you. I've recently been trying the A2 milk from Waitrose and Tesco which doesn't have casein in it, but it's still not perfect. I've tried sheeps yogurt and quite liked it but it was a bit strong.
I have friends who live on one of the smaller Greek islands and when I visited them two years ago I mentioned I couldn't take dairy, but they said I should try it and I found I could drink the local milk and even eat the cream without any of the usual side effects. They said other people had found the same thing and they thought it was because the milk there was processed in a different way. I could also eat the wonderful bread! I'd love to know in what way it was differently processed though, but I've also heard that dairy intolerance wasn't known in certain smaller Spanish towns until Carrefours opened a chain of shops there and sold their milk. So I do think the way cows milk is processed probably plays the biggest the part.
My husband has a friend in Canada who's just bought a part share in a cow to get the raw milk as that's the only way she can legally obtain raw milk in her part of Canada.
Hi Framboise. I think I maybe correct in saying that Goat and Sheep products are not considered dairy. As for the Greek bread made in the local bakery - it's probably devoid of preservatives which can be a trigger for irritating the gut,
Try the sheeps yoghurt with fruit that is quite sharpe and that may help the flavour.
Good luck !........
The most delicious ice cream is produced from buffalo milk and it's made by Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire. I've never seen it in supermarkets but you can buy in person from their farm shop.
Assuming it won't be lacto-free though, boo.
Thank you everyone for this ...have been trying to find raw goats milk for a while...might be lucky at a slow food market here in Italy.next week.
In answer to a post above.... I remember reading that they used to give them Donkey's milk when there was concerns about TB.....My gran lived on a farm...andshe lost an aunt to TB. The doctor misdiagnosed her as she was a strapping lass and there didn't seem much wrong with her. She died at 17. Both my grandparents thought of pasteurisation as a marvel ..probably as a result. Fascinating that we now swinging away from this approach......
I miss cream and yoghurt....am going to try the sheep yoghurt..thank you for the idea!
Thank you Alicia for your reply. I too had TB - in the gut and not the lung - and my brother died at 9 with Meningitis which the medics thought could have been tuberculous in origin. I was only young at the time. We lived on farms and farming folk are/were more aware of TB than most and usually had a house cow or a goat. My brother probably contacted his when he started school and did not have the natural immunity that so many had if they survived the war.
My Mum naturally was not that fond of milk from cows - a trend I seem to have imitated. I too was a strapping lass so all my illnesses ignored and the TB only diagnosed at 27....after surgery for this and that.....
I have my sheep or is it sheep's ? - yoghurt for breakfast with organic oats and some fruit. I know I should be gluten free because of my Hashi's but so far so good !
Hope you enjoy your new yoghurt......
Am sorry to hear that you lost your brother....bloody tb and meninigitis. and that you had TB in the gut..never heard of that before...what horrors lurk beneath the surface beauty of mother earth....but looking from another side it must have been wonderful to grow up on a farm? it's the ambition of my two boys....and when I mumbled something about looking into buying a goat or part of..they were thrilled! Do you have a garden/farm in Crete?
best wishes
....sorry AliciaM - somehow your reply escaped me - and as I was reading through old blogs I discovered yours ! No we do not have a farm in Crete - we just have 59 olive trees in about an acre. Think we were both done with gardening by the time we arrived here to retire in 2004. There are so many good fruit and veg shops in the villages and when we have grown the odd thing the watering is a pain ! Nothing grows in July and August because of the heat. We do however have two seasons for growing.
We pick the olives in the winter and we have masses of oil - the press take a share in payment. Actually I don't help with the picking anymore - I am just the provider of lunch and snacks ! It's very hard work but so rewarding when all is safely gathered in !
Nice swimming in the pool through the olive trees - something different...and lots of wildlife to observe as I plough up and down doing lengths !
Thank you for your post....hope you are well - M x
I enjoy locally produced sheeps yogourt here in France , it is delicious. I get a lemon one which is particularly good. I don`t tolerate cows milk so have switched to either goats or sheeps products with good results. Have fun trying them all!!
Are we allowed to say which of the larger supermarkets if any, sell sheep milk products? If yes, could someone please reply!!! My new private Dr recommended sheep yoghurt but I haven't found any yet.
Thanks,
Mary
Sorry Mary can't help with that one - as I am in Crete. Maybe go on-line with the various ones and check out their products. Just a thought......
The On-Line Gluten Summit - A Grain of Truth - There were a few things I thought interesting and worth reporting.....
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METAVIVE experience and why I stopped. (a long post sorry!!) Please read and tell me what you think...
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