I just visit a supermarket near me yesterday. It has raw cow milk and raw goat milk.
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literally the first thing i did when i relocated to a state where raw milk is legal, is buy it. so delicious. i get it from an amish stand at the farmer’s market.
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Oh, wait;
“Raw or low-temperature pasteurized goat’s milk (often found in local markets) will coagulate toward the end of the cooking process, giving the cajeta a slightly grainy consistency, so save those delicately flavored milks for fresh applications.”
Have you tried to headbutt the goats yet? I heard if you win, you get a prize.
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I don’t even want to get out of the car! They seemed happy to jump on the hood of the car.
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But after 45 minutes of cooking, it’s hardly raw anymore … Huh. I wonder why industrial pasteurizaton and stovetop pasteurization would yield different results. 
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Given your point, I wonder if the homogenization of the commercial stuff is what keeps it from going grainy?
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Agreed, homogenization might come into play.
Or maybe they just over-cooked that batch … no shade to Stella Parks or Serious eats, but how many batches of raw milk cajeta do you think they actually made?
Just seemed funny to me, getting excited about raw milk then cooking it for an hour. But I’m not a ‘believer’ 
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If you can tolerate it, it’s addictive. I don’t even think it’s legal in WI. We’ll, they can just go to heck! I think it tastes like melted ice cream, sans sugar.
Like many laws in Florida, raw milk regulations are squishy at best.
There are two facilities that are fully licensed and inspected to process raw milk for human consumption.
Everywhere else, its clearly labeled “for pet consumption only”. Pretty funny how many pets are eating tomato basil goat cheese crumbles. (They’re delicious, by the way. The cat swears by them.)
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RD, I saw a comedian do a similar riff on the first person to eat an oyster. I have to admit that though I like oysters on the half shell, I can not imagine being the first person I knew to try one…
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And if you lose you get a concussion or skull fracture
But just think… the bragging right you will have to tell your friend that you beat a goat in headbutting
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That’ll impress the heck out of them, won’t it?
Potential skull fracture vs. boasting rights with my friends.
Hmmm…
Maybe?
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Probably the same outcome even if you “win”.
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It will certainly impress the goats.
Three weeks later I’ve got a happy and sad story to tell about this.
I ran out of cumin seed a couple of weeks ago. My local grocer is out of it. I checked other nearby groceries - all out. I really prefer to toast and grind myself, but was stuck using pre-ground.
Yesterday I was traveling a bit farther afield and stopped at a grocery over there. Yay! They had cumin seed. Not in any of the cheaper brands like Badia or Spice Island or McCormick, it was some fru-fru “all natural, organic, imported all the way from Planet Neptune” brand that cost me $8.50 for a 50 gram jar. But at least I now had some!
On the way back and close to home I had to detour through a small shopping center due to an accident at the intersection. Sitting there in all its glory, not a 5 minute drive from my house, is a small Indian grocery. I went in and turns out they’d been there over a year - but just tucked away out of sight, behind a day care center and a Walgreens, in a plaza housing a Dominos Pizza, a couple of karate places, and the worst Chinese food restaurant for miles.
I got 200 grams of cumin seed for $2.79. An hour after having just paid what amounted to $34 per 200 gram. So I was sad-happy.
They also had kala jeera (nigella), methi (fenugreek) and small black mustard seeds at similar prices - stuff I’d had in mind to find due to recipe browsing. And the coriander seed was dirt cheap - I needed 40 grams to make biltong anyway, so that was a happy find overall.
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I know when I moved to where I do now, I looked for an Indian market for their spices. Alas, 1.5 hours to the nearest one. Then, I discovered planet Amish for more common spices, then the Mennonite store for the harder to find. I was so relieved after thinking I was SOL for spice sources. Then, Thai market opened, as did the heavens. THANK YOU, LORD!
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