This month avoid cold draughts through the make-room during the
scalding process, as a vat presents a large surface for a current
of air to exert a chilling effect upon. Be sure and cook the curd
enough. There is a vast amount of fall made cheese that comes to
grief through insufficient scalding. If you do not bake a loaf of
bread thoroughly, you have a doughy and unpalatable article of food,
and if curd is not cooked until it has passed the raw state, it
will retain a certain quantity of whey and damage the product on
the shelves. This is the cause of strong-flavored, flabby-textured
cheese. A gentleman of long experience in the trade has said: “The
truth is, as it is difficult to cure cheese in cold weather, it ought
to be cooked more than will answer in hot weather, and sour less, as
the tendency is to acidulation in a cool atmosphere, in consequence
of the moisture not drying out soon enough.” To this we can append
the suggestion of never trying to cure a cheese in a cool atmosphere,
for the result will be a failure. A cheese cannot help but grow old
in a cold room but it will never cure.
A SIGNIFICANT REPORT.
A recent issue of the Utica _Herald_ contains the following:
A New York gentleman, who has recently returned from Liverpool,
writes to a friend in this city and reports the situation healthy
on the other side, but says New York State cheese are done for
as far as fine cheese goes. It is the same old trouble we have
mentioned time and again, too much cheese to the pound of milk—no
body. Canada, and even New Zealand, are taking the trade of fine
cheese from the States. Our factory men will wake up to the fact
some day and find their goods are only second class. In fact, it is
about so now. New York State cheese sell under Canada all the way
from ½ @ 1c. a pound. We have preached this a long while but it is
beginning to be realized now. This accounts for the large shipments
from Canada during the last two months, and the small ones from
here.
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