Eight girls. Edith keeps the books.
Edith Danner owns Grandmammaries. She does not go on the production board. The milk is taken from the eight girls who work the stands, logged by house name, and bottled the same day.
Rebecca Doyle
Earliest stand most mornings. Clean line, soft cream top.
sweet butter · counter cheese
Shelby Raines
Youngest on the board. Smaller lots. First-milk reserve when Edith holds a half-pint back.
first-milk reserve
Lucy Hart
Cultures and temperature. Pepper cheese and the cultured line.
buttermilk · cultured cream · pepper cheese · brown butter pecan
Caroline Mercer
Whipped product and butter finishing. Sunday vanilla when the pan is up.
chocolate · vanilla · whipped cream
Joanna Bell
Heavy after a warm night. First bottles on the shelf.
cream-top · strawberry
Hannah Grace
Front of the case. Soft body, golden under the light.
honey spread
Lila Pike
Seasonal fruit and afternoon runs.
peach · blackberry
Natalie Boone
Volume for the churn. Brown-sugar bottles and salted butter.
brown sugar · salted butter · holiday nogEdith Danner
Signs the invoices, sets the board, and tastes the first bottle off every stand. Kathy’s store keeps its own staff.