The milk people were right. It improved after sitting overnight in the fridge.
The main thing I found objectionable last night was that not all the bits had dissolved and incorporated, and so the taste I took had dried-milk chunks in it. They had dissolved by this morning, and also the milk is colder.
You could never fool me into thinking it's FRESH milk, but it's not that bad. It's sweeter than fresh milk and tastes a bit like evaporated milk, but it's not objectionable.
I may not try going out to the store today. Part of it is that at this point, it would feel a bit like "cheating" - for years here, people think I'm a little excessive in terms of the amount of canned/other preserved food I keep on hand, and I always say, "If we get a long run of really bad weather, then I'll be fine." And really, with the exception of fresh milk, I will - I have canned fruit and dried fruit of several kinds, I have enough flour and other things necessary for baking bread or muffins or tortillas, I have LOTS of canned veggies and even some frozen stuff. And pasta, and rice, and beans, both dry and canned...
And I do have a lot of powdered milk. This is a big can of the stuff from a camping-supply store, that I use in breadmaking.
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People laugh at us because we have probably six months' food stored—more if we want to eat odds and ends—but we live at the end of a non-state-maintained, shady road; the last time we had several inches of snow, it stayed below freezing, didn't melt at all, and we were stuck at home for a week. The only thing bothersome was that we have a PO box and we didn't get any mail . . .
It's just John and I, but we have *ahem* several cats, plus a flock of chickens and some goats, and we feed the birds; so we stay stocked up. It's better to be ready; after all, we'll eat it eventually.
(And it's not just winter; when a hurricane blew up this way several years ago, we didn't have any flooding—we're on a hill—but there was water between us and everything else.)
I just told my oldest daughter (poor college student that she is) about how to make reconstituted dried milk and why it's good to have on hand.
For some reason, back in the 70s, I remember milk prices were really high and my parents started driving to a Farmers Co-op store to buy milk in big, returnable and refillable plastic jugs. They would sometimes cut the "real" milk with the reconstituted to make it go farther. No-one liked it but we drank it anyway for "the calcium."
I guess that was my only Little House moment.
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