Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1Linné, Carl von
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Lachesis Lapponica; Or, A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1
Linné, Carl von
Lapland -- Description and travel; Natural history -- Lapland
3. Fresh boiled, and coagulated with beer, which is called _ölost_.
4. Sour milk, deprived of its cream, and capable of being cut.
5. Sour milk eaten with its cream.
6. Butter, made, as usual, of cream shaken till its oily part
separates and floats.
7. Butter-milk, what remains after the butter is made.
8. Cheese, made of fresh milk heated, coagulated with calves' rennet,
then deprived of its whey and dried.
9. This whey being boiled, the scum which rises is repeatedly
collected, and called _walle_.
10. The remaining whey is used instead of milk or water in making
bread.
11. The same fluid kept for a long time till it becomes viscid, is
preserved through the winter, and called _syra_.
12. The whey of cheese boiled to a thick consistence is denominated
_mesosmör_, and with meal is added to the preceding. See _p. 197_.
13. _Sötost_, or Sweet Cheese, is made of fresh milk boiled till it is
partly wasted, and the remainder, of the thickness of pap or gruel,
is eaten fresh.
14. _Mjölost_, Meal Cheese, is milk coagulated with rennet, mixed
with meal, and boiled.
15. _Tatmjölk_, is fresh milk poured on leaves of Butterwort,
_Pinguicula_, as already mentioned, _p_. 196, 197.
16. Servet milk. See _Aug._ 10.
17. _Gös-mjölk_. See _Aug._ 10.
18. _Lapmjölk_, is milk mixed with sorrel leaves, (_R. Acetosa_,) and
preserved till winter in the stomach of a reindeer, or some other
animal.
19. The milk of the reindeer is placed in a cellar to prevent its
quickly turning sour, in order to obtain the more cream; if it
freezes, they thaw it again.
_June 24._
Midsummer day. Blessed be the Lord for the beauty of summer and of
spring, and for what is here in greater perfection than almost any where
else in the world,--the air, the water, the verdure of the herbage, and
the song of birds!
I walked out in the morning to botanize, but met with nothing curious,
except _Arisarum_ of Rivinus (_Calla palustris_), the flower of which is
described in my _Characteres Generici_; and the _Corallorrhiza_.
Here I was first informed of a disease which had made great ravages
amongst the cattle in this neighbourhood, and which was of so
pestilential a nature, that, though the animals were flayed even before
they were cold, wherever their blood had come in contact with the human
body, it had caused gangrenous spots and sores. Some persons had had
both their hands swelled, and one his face, in consequence of the blood
coming upon it. Many people had lost their lives by it, insomuch that
nobody would now venture to flay any more of the cattle, but they
contrived to bury them whole. As a preventative they had adopted the
practice of swimming their cattle once a day, which they believed
rendered the animals proof against the disorder.
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