Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.Allen, Richard Lamb
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Domestic Animals: History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy.
Allen, Richard Lamb
Domestic animals
The churning of the clouted cream of this and other countries, forms an
exception to the general rule just stated, that more time is required in
the churning of sweet creams. Clouted cream may be churned in the
morning after it is made, that is, within twenty-four hours of the time
when the milk was taken from the cow; and from such cream it is well
known that the butter separates with very great ease. But in this case,
the heating of the cream has already disposed the oily matter to cohere,
an incipient running together of the globules has probably taken place
before the cream is removed from the milk, and hence the comparative
ease with which the churning is effected. There is something peculiar in
butter prepared in this way, as it is known in other countries by the
name of Bohemian butter. It is said to be very agreeable in flavor, but
it must contain more cheesy matter than the butter from ordinary cream.
Churning the whole Milk
Is a much more laborious method, from the difficulty of keeping in
motion such large quantities of fluid. It has the advantage, however, of
giving a larger quantity of butter. At Rennes, in Brittany, the milk of
the previous evening is poured _into the churn_ along with the warm
morning's milk, and the mixture is allowed to stand for some hours, when
the whole is churned. In this way it is said that a larger quantity of
butter is obtained, and of a more delicate flavor.
In the neighborhood of Glasgow, according to Mr. Aiton, the milk is
allowed to stand six, twelve, or twenty-four hours in the dairy, till
the whole has cooled, and the cream has risen to the surface. Two or
three milkings, still sweet, are then poured together with their cream,
into a large vessel, and are left undisturbed till the whole has become
quite sour, and is completely coagulated. The proper sourness is
indicated by the formation of a stiff _brat_ upon the surface _which has
become uneven_. Great care must be taken to keep the brat and curd
unbroken until the milk is about to be churned, for if any of the whey
be separated, the air gains admission to it and to the curd, and
fermentation is induced. By this fermentation, the quality of the butter
may or may not be affected, but that of the buttermilk is almost sure to
be injured.
In Holland the practice is a little different. The cream is not allowed
to rise to the surface at all, but the milk is stirred two or three
times a day, till it gets sour, and so thick that a wooden spoon will
stand in it. It is then put into the churn, and the working, or the
separation of the butter is assisted by the addition of a quantity of
cold water. By churning the sour milk in one or other of these ways, the
butter is said to be "rich, sound, and well-flavored." If it be greater
in quantity, it is, according to Sprengel, because the fatty matter
carries with it from the milk a larger quantity of casein than it does
in most cases from the cream alone.
Sourness of the Cream.
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