The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articlesWilder, F. W. (Fred William)
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The modern packing house : $b A complete treatise on the design, construction, equipment and operation of meat packing houses, according to present American praactice, including methods of converting by-products into commercial articles
Wilder, F. W. (Fred William)
Packing-houses
When it is compounded with the lard, the desired amount should be put
into the kettle with the lard after it is treated. The same is true
of oleo-stearine, except that in the bleaching of this article from
one-half to one and one-half per cent of fuller earth is sufficient.
Measures must be taken to see that ingredients are intimately mixed
before passing the product to the rolls.
The use of tallow or stearine is for the purpose of cheapening the
product, as well as hardening it, the formula for same being made
according to the values and conditions under which the lard is to
be sold. For instance lard going south, or into a warm climate,
is made much harder than lard for a temperate climate; hence lard
formulas, generally speaking, are worthless for general use, the
different formulas being made to suit widely different conditions, and
their availability also depends to a considerable extent upon the
fluctuation of values.
=Filter Press.=--After the contents of the kettle have been pumped
through the filter air pressure should be turned into the filter press
in order to blow out all the lard possible. After this live steam
should be turned on, expelling the balance of the lard from the pipe. A
large portion of this latter lard, however, is unfit to be used again,
as it contains sediment and fullers earth combined, having a rank,
strong odor, and can be used only for grease.
[Illustration: FIG. 154.--LARD COOLING CYLINDER.]
=Lard Roll.=--This is a device provided for cooling lard in a film
so as to bring plenty of air in contact with the surface during the
congealing. After the lard has been put through the filtering press it
goes to a receiving tank and is next passed over rollers for chilling.
(Fig. 154.) These are cast iron cylinders containing refrigerated
brine. The cylinders revolve at from ten to fourteen revolutions per
minute, the lard being congealed on the outer surface. Fixed against
the side of the cylinder is the edge of a steel knife which scrapes
close to its surface. The lard, in contact with the cool surface of
the cylinders, congeals and as it passes to the knife it is removed
and drops into the trough. Here it is thoroughly beaten by a revolving
shaft with pickers on it, so that all lumps are broken and the grain
is of a smooth, even consistency. Pure lard passes to an agitator,
which is a jacketed kettle, where it is given a thorough agitation
and drawn off cool as possible, the object being to have the different
ingredients thoroughly mixed at a low temperature.
At times rolls are used in tandem. When a bountiful supply of cold
water, say at 60° F., is available, the saving in refrigeration
justifies the use of tandem rolls. In this instance the first roll is
elevated so as to gravitate the lard to the feed of the second.
WEIGHT OF LARD PACKAGES.
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