Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-08
From Hearth and Home.
To Make and Pack Butter for Winter
Use.

First OF all, the milk must be skinned
at the right time. The best butter makers
10 not wait until the milk has clabbored,
but skim it when it is the least bit sour to
the taste, which is easily ascertained-
Whom milk sours before it is skinned the
cream appears thicker, but in reality it is
not. Sannet tried the experiment with
two equal quantities Of milk. The one that
Was skinned iust before souring-that is,
in thirty hours-made thirty pounds of
butter the other, allowed to stand sixty
hours, yielded twenty seven pounds. When
a milk room has an cvon temperature, say
sixty degrees, all the cream that is desira
bic for butter will rise in thirty to thirty
Fix hours. 1t never should stand an hour
longer. The cream after this period is de-
priycd of the delicious flavor and aroma so
essential to the taste of good butter. Of
one thing We are certain, from various ex-
periments !; the sooner the cream can he
mado to rise, the better is its keeping pual
itiea. All travellers inform us that in Lon
don and Paris the butter far excceda ours.
One of the chief points with their dairy
women IL to nkim the milk at the right
time. The moat celebrated butter in the
New York market is from Orange county,
and they adhere strictly to the thirty six
hour l4lle. Cream must be sour to make
ihltter ; this ~ q fixed fact in our mind
In winter. when tho cream foams and bub-
blea in the churn, aud refuses to como to
bnttor, it is hecause it has not experienced
q change. The weather has been too cold
to allow of it, and We add tablespoonful
of powdered alum to produce tho desired
results. The cream which boiled and
ragged like q mad creature is subduod, and
in few moments the welcome splash an
nOunccs tho butter.
This summer has beon cold. damp and
mo1ldy in in it's tendency. Cream is east
ly affected by tho atmosphere. Our dairy
consists of one lovely Aldorney, Juno by
name. Sweet as June roses is her milk,
golden as it's bntter-cups her cream. But
it must stand a week before enough is col
leeted to ohurn. Juno supplies family of
six with milk and cream and butter, though
she is but three years old last June, and
is farrow this year. Something must be
done to keep that cream fresh. On due
doliberation, VIC decide that if q table
spoonful of powdered saltpetre must be
added to every four pounds of butter put
down for winter use, why not put one
teaspoQnfnl of it into the first cream we
pnt into the pot, and stir it we'll up with
every fresh addition 1t is done. and the
results are most happy. We seek medical
information. Are its effects injurious p
Not at oil, taken in large quantities, like
epson salts it is poisonous, but, like most
poisons ef1icacious in intinitesimal doses.
All corned beef, hams, ETC., arc picked
with its aid. It cannot burt our butter, so
We continne the process, and our cream
contains its fine aroma. The buttermilk is
pronounced by connoisseurs delicious. -
We beg our readers who are preparing
1>f1kf fNrr farr ff,1
cream it as collects. We mako all our table
butter from this ono COW; its flavor and
color are unsurpassed by Philadelphia
butter, and we add 10 coloring mat
ter now, while we know that the
far-famed continental butter is
Colored with annotto. In Winter we
color with orange carrots, grated, or
with yolk of eggs, preferring the latter. -
The churns of the present day are great
aid in working ont the buttermilk still,
butter paddles are needed, few women
having hands or wrists strong enough to
refuse their aid. We think that butter
paddles might be manufactured like large
fork, or in imitation of four fingers and a
| thurb, which would greatly hasten the
! flow of the buttermilk. Cannot some
Yankee youth benefit by our suggestion
| When the butter is waXen in texture, as
all Alderney butter is after little mould
ing, and it ceases to color the water which
drips from the ice I've never wash butter
the sugar of milk is soluble, and the water
takes away the sweetness of the butter
| that is our oxperiencc), then we work it
into cakes, which are placed in q stone jar
containing q brine made thus:
| To one gallon Of water add three quarts
of fine salt, ono pound of saltpetre, one
pound of white sugar. Boil and skim we'll,
strain through a cloth, and when cool turn
upon the butter.
This brine has kept butter for us the
year round. We arc now using buttor fol-
cooking purposes mado last September,
put down in firkil, with tablespoonful
of powdered and sifted saltpetre, and OF
sugar, to every tour pounds, and it is
better than much Of the butter which will
be marketed this year. It has no odor OF
taste which would indicate its age. 1t has
been kept in an ice-house since June, en-
tirely covered with brine.
| Interesting to- the Disqualified.
The Washington Republican, a quasi
official organ of the administration, an
nounces in its issue of yesterday the At
torney General Of the United States has
received notice Of an important decision
which has recently been rendered by the
supreme court OF LOulSlaDa. lQO UCC1S-
ion is that when person has taken IN
oath of Office before the war to support the
Constitution of the United States, and du.
ring the war held an Office in a State in
rebellion which required him to take an
oath to support the Confederate States,
such person cannot for this reason alone
be said to have engaged in insurrection OF
rebellion against the United States, or
give aid or comfort to the enemies thereof
in the meaning Of section three of tho four
teenth amendment.
The Republican adds-and this is somf
indication that the decision is not unfavor
ably received at Washington
" This decision will be found very i'm
portant. and of large scope in reducing
and limiting DISTINGUISHING clauses of The
Constitution and acts Of Congress-"
Horrible Oatrase PeFprtatur tynehed
A horrible outrage Wis perpetrated two
and "A half miles from Dos Arc, few day.
ago, on Miss Jennie C"nIoy, young lady
living with Colonel Bulla. by a buhy ne
gro named Jesse Johnson. 1t appear
that while Miss Conley WAS attending t.
her duties, early ini the morning, before
the family had risen, jesse was also abou
the kitchen, and was ordered by her tt
| attend the MILKING of the COWS Whon hI