(1) In the seventeenth century, a milkmaid would send a stream of new, warm milk directly from a cow into a bowl of spiced cider or ale.(2) She worked as a milkmaid on her husband Jack's milk round in Hanwell.(3) The removal of the bowls for settling the milk and the absence of butter churns or a cow barn indicate that it was not intended as a working dairy even for a royal milkmaid .(4) One could ask if the ploughman and the milkmaid of today would understand much of what is prayed.(5) His father was a carpenter, bricklayer, and farmer, and his mother was a milkmaid .
