butter-milk

But it was of no avail. And this couple had lived upon potatoes and butter-milk all their lives!

G. F. Davidson - Trade and Travel in the Far East: or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java,: Singapore, Australia and China.

This gives him little uneasiness, provided, at his arrival, she is sufficiently recovered to attend him with a bowl of butter-milk. Nothing can be more haughty than an Arab's behaviour to his wife, and nothing more humble than that of a wife in the presence of her husband.

Pierre-Raymond de Brisson - Perils and Captivity : Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770.

I made a pound of butter yesterday, just to try what I could do; but it's not firm, Jacob. How is that?" "I have seen the women make butter, and know how, Alice; so next time I will be with you. I suppose you did not wash your butter-milk well out, nor put any salt in it?" "I did not put any salt in it." "But you must, or the butter will not keep."

Frederick Marryat - The Children of the New Forest

"Not one cent, or mother either." "Well, what of it?" exclaimed Don. "Brace up and be a man, Dave. A ten-dollar bill is not an everlasting fortune." "I know it isn't much to you, but it is a good deal to me. You don't know what the loss of it means. It means corn-bread and butter-milk for breakfast, dinner and supper." "Well, what of that?" said Don, again.

Harry Castlemon - The Boy Trapper