I drank some colostrum

[goatsareus]

on purpose

dh said ewwww

I am desperate for milk. For some reason store bought milk tasted very poor to me this winter so I stopped buying it in December.

Yesterday my third doe freshened and later I milked out a quart of colostrum. As I went to freeze a pint of it this morning, I took a glug of it. It tasted sweet, rich and very good. It had absolutely no off flavor. In fact, I thought it tasted really good.

Is it okay to drink colostrum? I'm looking for some sound, maybe even scientific, advice. I am making strogonoff today and want to use the colostrum in the recipe. I asked dh if he would eat it. He said yes if I did not explicitly remind him there was colostrum in it.

In all these years I have raised goats, I have never been the least bit interested in consuming colostrum, but now I am intrigued.

[everado2]

yes some people do drink it but mostly runners and people who are into athaletics it does sell for a very good price.

[BlueHeronFarm]

The British make a dessert out of it - bee sting.
I don't think you can cook with it, though - it will turn to pudding. (Bee sting)
That's why you have to be so careful when you heat treat it for CAE prevention.

[Minelson]

Cheers to you! I think it's great when people try different things

[A'sta at Hofstead]

My mother said there was a dessert served in Iceland. A custard made with colostrum. he said it was very good and not served very often. I am sure it was lamb colostrum.

[huck]

I'm looking for some sound, maybe even scientific, advice

Link to NPA [Natural Product Association] web article on Colostrum. If you seek further reserach on colostrum I would check out the 'references' at the bottom of the article. As their references came out of actual 'peer reviewed' journals, not just the marketing claims of companies selling colostrum.

[goatsareus]

thanks huck, for the link, very interesting. I take aspirin (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) for arthritis and colostrum is supposed to be effective in limiting damage to the GI system related to NSAID intake. wow

I just looked in the freezer, I have 5 pints of colostrum from 05. I am thawing one right now. I can understand that it may not hold up in cooking so I won't try it in strogonoff tonight. But I just tried it as a coffee creamer and it worked very well. I intend to use it as a coffee creamer, at least a few pints, or until I start to milk on a regular basis.

[Helena]

Family from England and they use to make the pudding. I would think that if you were sickly or had sick babies that this would work wonders !! Why not !!

[crazygoatgal]

I have to tell you I cringed when I first read this. It is soooo unusual in our society today to drink colostrum from any animal, but my hat is off to you. I saw in my local Price Chopper store last night a bottle of bovine colostrum in the organic vitamin/mineral area. It stated that it is good for fighting/preventing illness or infections. I ally made custard once trying to heat my goats colostrum and I have to tell you, it didn't look half bad.