Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-10-12
sweet Butter.

We are indebted to the courtesy of
Mrs LEONARD CROKER, of Somers, for
crock of the sueetest butter it has been
our fortune to get for the past season.
On visit we recently paid to Col.
Crocker's farm, in looking over his var-
Gus farm facilities, we observed that their
conveniences for setting milk were much
better than we often see in this country.
and by the specimen of their work sent
US, we find that they use them well.
And it is refreshing, after boiling the
common store butter one usually gets in
a city like this. for eating it is out of the
questionable only way is to shut ones
eyes and swallow it as one would medi-
cine--to get an article that tastes like the
butter we used to get when we helped
our grand-mothcrs churn it. Not that
this County is not as good for making
butter, or that the butter made is not as
good, as any in the State. for it is but
that there Is rot, any where throughout
the country, taken as a lUhole, the requis-
tie skill, cleanliness, and conyenienees
used to make such an article as ought
to be made.
Now that we have said so much, and
perhaps offended our women friends past
forgiveness, we will make clean breast
OF it, and have our say out.
To the disgrace of yankee skill and
yankee enterprise however much it may
he, it is no less fact, that the only place
in tie United States where one can uni
vcrsally find good bread and good but
ter, at ereyy house, is down among the
old Pennsylvania Dutch, any where in
Center, Union, Iycoming, and Miiiin
Counties, and round abont, i'll the interi-
or of the State. We have travelled some.
in our day, and i'll that country we found
universally the softcst, sweetest bread.
and the incest, sweetest butter we ever
tasted-hread and butter so good as to
eclipse all other food confectionery sweet
meats, or what not. for relish even for
dessert.
The country abounds in large running
springs and in selecting a site for the
farmhouse. no attention whatever is paid
to roads, beauty Of location or any thing
Of that sort bit contigndy to the best
spring is The oaiy requisite, and there the
farmhouse is always built.
Over the spring a stone house is erect
ed, called "Sping House." witha stone
floor, sunk 50 low that the water from
the spring flows over it, and on this floor
the milk is set, not in tin-pans, but in
clean, sweet stone jars.
The result is, the cream is never sour.
strong, or froWcy, but is cool and sweet,
AMI the butter made from it is the butter
Of all the world.
We know there are no springs in this
country, and that that essential requisite
is wanting but yankee ingenuity ought
to invent way to supplyit. Agood stone
house, set into the ground, under some
side-hiIl, or in some shady place: with a
stone floor, and if no spring can be found,
a we'll dug, from which cold fresh water
could be thrown intoit three times a day,
or oftcner, would very nearly answer
the purpose Of a spring house.
In this way an approach could be made
to the butter of the old German women
of Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Croker will accept our thanks
for her kindness. 1t has given keen
relish to our breakfasts, and been the
cause Of this dcsultory article.-D.