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
If the entire milk only be used, we have such cheeses as the _Cheshire_,
the _Double Gloucester_, the _Cheddar_, the _Wiltshire_, and the
_Dunlop_ cheeses of Britain, the Kinnegad cheese of Ireland, and the
Gouda and Edam cheeses of Holland. Even here, however, it makes a
difference, whether the warm milk from the cow is curdled alone, as at
Gouda and Edam, or whether it is mixed with the milk of the evening
before, as is generally done in Cheshire and Ayrshire. Many persons are
of opinion that cream, which has once been separated, can never be so
well mixed again with the milk, that a portion of the fatty matter shall
not flow out with the whey and render the cheese less rich.
If the cream of the evening's milk be removed, and the skimmed milk
added to the new milk of the next morning, such cheeses as the _Single
Gloucester_ are obtained. If the cream be taken once from _all_ the
milk, the better kinds of skimmed-milk cheese, such as the Dutch cheese
of Leyden, are prepared; while if the milk be twice skimmed, we have the
poorer cheeses of Friesland and Groningen. If skimmed for three or four
days in succession, we get the hard and horny cheeses of Essex and
Sussex, which often require the axe to break them up.
Buttermilk Cheese.
But poor or butterless cheese will also differ in quality according to
the state of the milk from which it is extracted. If the new milk be
allowed to stand to throw up its cream, and this be then removed in the
usual way, the ordinary skimmed-milk cheese will be obtained by adding
rennet to the milk. But if, instead of skimming, we allow the milk to
stand till it begins to sour, and then remove the butter by churning the
whole, we obtain the milk in a sour state, (_buttermilk_.) From this
milk the curd separates naturally by gentle heating. But being thus
prepared from sour milk, and without the use of rennet, buttermilk
cheese differs more or less in quality from that which is made from
sweet skimmed-milk. The acid in the buttermilk, especially after it has
stood a day or two, is capable of coagulating new milk also; and thus,
by mixing more or less sweet milk with the buttermilk before it is
warmed, several other qualities of mixed butter and sweet-milk cheese
may readily be manufactured.
Whey Cheese.
The whey which separates from the curd, and especially the white whey,
which is pressed out towards the last, contains a portion of curd, and
not unfrequently a considerable quantity of butter also. When the whey
is heated, the curd and butter rise to the surface, and are readily
skimmed off. This curd alone will often yield a cheese of excellent
quality, and so rich in butter, that a very good imitation of Stilton
cheese may sometimes be made with alternate layers of new-milk curd and
this curd of whey.
Mixtures of Vegetable Substances with the Milk.
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