Sweet milk and Oven temperatures

Some of my mom's recipes has the term sweet milk. I wasn't sure if that meant sweetened condensed milk or something else. After some research I discovered that sweet milk is acutally just whole milk. After milking the cow and before processing the milk in anyway, this was what was called sweet milk. After they separated the cream from the whole milk you are left with buttermilk (which my dad loved). And before our wonderful refrigeration ability, the farmer often had lots of sour milk. Many of my mother's recipe's call for sour milk. It was probably a way to use the sour milk instead of just throwing it out.

Another issue as I have been typing her recipe's is they often don't say what the temperature of the oven should be. She frequently states either hot oven or moderate oven. Well not having a clue about what moderate oven temperature means sent me on another research trek. Cool ovens are 250-300 degrees, Moderate ovens are 350-375 degrees and Hot ovens are 425-450 degrees. So now I know. I did not get any baking done today, so just doing some research and typing of recipes. I do need to start the Christmas Hard Tack Cookies, and I hope to do that tomorrow.