Enter the Dairy Maid - or Milk Maid, I'll accept either answer.
They were one of the these groups of women who used to be a skilled worker, but that pesky no being able to sign contracts or own stuff really stifled the ability to do any business beyond work for wages. Funny that.

But in the 18th century and the rise of Dairies as stand alone businesses because there was
A) land to have them
and
B) large bustling cities that worked as a customer base

you could start to get cream skimmed by someone else, summer cream cheese became a thing, and you could even buy a swallow of milk on the street - maybe to cool your fiery palate from that mug of Pepper-Pot Stew you got from the other street vendor.

Oh yeah, and people were noticing that dairy maids were doing better than the general population as a couple of waves of The Smallpox washed through the colonies. What to do about that? Not clear yet.

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