My MIL called whole milk "sweet milk" and a lot of the old cookbooks from the south use that term. I had never heard that until I married. My grandfather raised pigs and every fall he butchered a pig and we always got a 5 gal tin of lard and that's all I knew to cook with until I was in high school when mom finally broke down and bought some crisco because the lard had become too rancid. Memories!!!!
LOL ... knew someone would ask that too ! I'm old enough to remember Oleo ... many of my grandmas & my mom's recipes refer to using oleo (they used real butter too) My girls asked the same thing not long ago, when we made some family recipes ... I also heard "Eww, who puts Buttermilk in a recipe, Gross!" and "What's Carnation milk? / What is Milnot?" :roll:[/quote]