The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-08-16

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Correspondence of the Fireside Journal
BUTTER MAKING.
Mr.. Editors:
There is a universal complaint
among farmers, on account Of the
want of good butter il hot weather:
or during the months of July and
August. So difficult has it been to
obtain butter of good quality, that a
great many farmers, during these
months, either make cheese, or send
their milk to the cheese factory.
And, indeed, it need be no surprise
hat it is so, when We consider that no
one man in FIVE hundred. in building
a farm house. makes any preparation
for either a good cellar or pantry, Sc
cure from the extremes of either heat
or cold, and in other respects convent
ent and suitable for milk, and butter
making. There are few cellars in
which milk can be kept, and good
butter made. and yet in a cellar
properly and conveniently
arranged, as good butter can be made
in Summer time, with good manage
ment, as at any other time of the
year. Cellars, as too often built,
are simply holes under houses,
in which potatoes, eabbages, &C.,
are kept, during winter, without
freezing. Bins and boards are left in
it year after year to rot, and cause
sickness, and people wonder why they
are thus afflicted. The money paid to
the doctor, In some cases, would pay
the cost Of an ample and pleasant cell
lar, and also the cost of keeping it
neat and clean. We claim to know
how a cellar can DE built. in which
good butter may be made: 1st-Lay
good walls in mortar. 2d-Make two
good-sized windows on two sides. one
on each, and a large door on another.
Thus you will secure the main point
good ventilation. 3d-hIake the
shelves at the top OF in range of the
windows. so that the milk can be
placed where the air will circulate
freely. 4th-Keep all wood, either
barrels, boards or bins, from resting
upon the ground floor, and do not
permit a floor of boards unless you
wish to spoil the whole affair. 9th
'-RemoyeNall remainseef vegetables
as early as.possible In spring, so that
in June the cellar may be ready for,
the milk. In dsuch a cellar the
churnipg+may be done, and the cream
and butter kept init In it the cream
andbutter may be keptpure and sweet
Milk will stand, In ordinary
weather, thirty-six. hours in such a
place, butron very hot days should
not stand more than twenty-four, Or
thirty hours.o a8ilts -
Cream should always be taken from
the milk before it wheyS." for If it
reaches that condition one-half of the
cream will be lost, and poor butter
will be the result. Great care should
also be taken ia very warm or hot
weather not to urn the sour milk at
the bottom of the eream jar, into the
churn. for by SO doing, the butter
will be full of white specks OF the
hard milk, very difficult to remove.
But with a little care this can be kept
back, and a quart of cold water added,
which will dissolve all the cream. Let
the curd settle at the bottom, and
drain off the water into the churn.
The idea that water must not be
used to rinse butter has been explod-
ed. Two thorough rinsings are suf-
f%cient; the water should be we'll
worked out. and the butter we'll
sailed. But allow me to say that
salt should never be added for the
sake of selling sdl-just enough
should be put in to give the butter
a fine flavor; too much will destroy
it. Over-worked butter will have an
oily appearance. 1t should only be
worked sufficiently to secure the de-
sired object and no more. If jars are
used they should be clean and sweet.
A little lime and boiling water will
sweeten jars ifqraneid. Butter should
be firmly packed, and a cloth and salt
put over the top, as 500 as filed, so
as to keep the air from the butter.
A pantry used for milk, oughtEnot
to be the receptacle of everything
else, as milk will be easily injured by
bad odors. Milk cannot be kept
sweet longer than from twelve to
twenty four hours, during hot weather
in a pantry. There is seldom more
than one window in a pantry. Two
windows would secure a better ven
tilation. A trellis of vines would be
azgreat protection in keeping off the
rays of the sun. A. NJ.