Condensed Milk.

Manawatu Herald, 20 December 1894, Page 3

Condensed Milk.

Most people/ are familiar -with the appearance if not with the ust and taste of condensed milk, but very fiw people know bow if is prepared. The inyejajipj:. was laughed at, as a jna tteikiif course, but he died worth 7,000,000d01., made by the business, which has now grown to be a gigan* tic industry. He somewhat astonlihedrhis countrymen by carrying th«r en#r« daily supply for New York m^-10/gout pail, delivering it him?elf % his customers. It was first introduced 80 years ago, and the pfocefifl of making it is very simple..,. JJie fresh milk is poured into a^r«rt*copper Hbank, with a steam jacket, and while it is being heate3 sugar is added, and the mixtare is. then drawn off into a vacuum tank where evaporation is produced by heat. ■ t ;T^iS;¥acuum tank holds 9000 quarts. It has a glass window on the top, through whiob the

operator looks from time to tinwi He can tell by the look of 'hi milk when the time has Arrived to shut off B team, end thin must be done just at the right moment, or the whole batch will be spoiled. It is then drawn into 40 quart can 9, and these are set in very cold spring water, where they are made to re* volve mechanically in order that their contents may cool evenly. — i