WASHING BUTTER.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4943, 5 February 1895, Page 3

WASHING BUTTER.

Mr P. N. Menzies, late of the Highland and Agricultural Society, says, "My butter is never touched with water. I hold that by the system now being taught, tho whole bloom, colour,aud tasto of the butter is washed out ; moveover, it takes as much trouble to got tho water out of the butter as it does to get tho buttermilk out, My system is, when the butter forms into small granulations to run off the buttermilk.and allow it to draw off the butter for a fow minutes; then lift it out with wooden scoops or spoons, and put it on tho butter-worker, and press as much of the buttermilk out with " Scotch bands" (little wooden Hat spades) as possiblo: then place all the butter on a cold slate, and work it in portions in the butter-worker till it appeal's quite solid, and all the milk is out of it. If the butter is to be kept fresh, it is then weighed into lbs.; if ifc is to be pickled or powdered, this is done iu the butterworker after it has been weighed, and salted to taste. I nso a mixture of lib of granulated cam sugar to 131b of Scotch sea salt. I may add that I havo for many years got the highest price going for my butter, and could sell a vast, deal more than I have to spare,"