PACKING BUTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4317, 12 January 1893, Page 3

PACKING BUTTER.

Golden pumpkins can bo turned into golden butter simply through the process of feeding them to your cows, If you are going to lay down butter for winter's use observe carefully the following principles, A stone jar or an ash firkin should be used, and this should be revered in all eases pure and clean. The inßido may not be of proper cleanliness for butter packing simply because it smells eweet, for precautions must be observed deeper than smell, to destroy bactoria, Some smile at the common'use of the w6fd bacteria and poke fun at the mixing of scientific forms with the praotioal, but I tell you if "dairy..

moil would emplay soalding hot water nioro freely about dairy utensils they would know neither the presonce nor tho ovils ot bacteria. The. footed germ life quickly developing.ou impropcrly cleansed dairy tools you may call what you like, but it produces only oiio general result, debasoruent of milk and butter quality. So, to eradicate the inception of tliia ruinouß ovil, employ an agent coming within the bounds of common cleanliness, namely water at the boiling heat. Whether tho jar or firkin has been used before ot not, wash it scrupulously, and thansoald thoroughly with boiling water, We have seen somecareful housewives wash butter jars with'cold water just prior to filling them, to keep the product firm, but the butter always had a bad flavour about the edges. Sculd first, and then chill the jar and pack the butter in firmly. Put a butter ololh over all, on which has beon sprinkled a little extra salt, and a scalded cover fitting down tightly into this ought to hold the butter flavour perfectly if right principles in making havo been observed, We went into a milk manufactory the other day where tbo maker was using sal soda and cold water in cleaning the milk uteusils. To show that the mode of treatment was ineffectual we will Btnte that we found yellow fungus thickly attached to the seams and joints of the tin vessels, Tlis same piinciple that wo have laid down above should havo obtained in this as in every other such case, daily applications of boiling hot water, or powerful jets of steam to the utensils, to kill bacteria of germ life—George E. Newell. __