My question.
Currently I have access to fresh milk. Yeay!
Not sure if that will last, or at least if there will be uninterrupted delivery in the supply chain.

One of my kid’s absolute favourite meals is Chicken Cream Stew - very versatile, you can have it with fish pieces too, or a vegetarian version if you wished.

I know that cream stew became popular in Japan after WWII when powdered milk was introduced, it was one of the few ways of making the stuff palatable enough for school children to consume.
Has anyone seen any recipes for making this original version with powdered milk? I can decipher recipes with translation tools but find it very difficult to search and identify them in order to do so.

If you have fresh milk and want to give this a try, my favourite recipe is the following from NHK. It’s for cream stew with oysters. The revelation was realising that you can add plenty of water (4 parts milk to 3 parts water). Apart from ignoring the oysters and using chicken (or fish) the other modification I make is cooking onions with the butter at the start before adding the flour to add flavour to the sauce.
Yuzu kousho is an amazing condiment to eat with this, but you can add a Tabasco type chilli instead, it just becomes “chowdery”. Means a family can eat it together but each still have a plate adapted to their own tastes. Have it with rice or bread.
https://www.nhk.or.jp/dwc/recipes/detail/43.html