Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-20
KEEPING FIRkIN BUTTER.

Inc Oalry plOuucC OF DuIteT, OuISlue VI Lne
districts Of country around our cities and
large towns, available for daily marketing,
must necessarily be put up or packed in tubs
made of white oak, holding twenty-five, fifty,
or one hundred pounds weight. The pack
ages are known in the market as tubs or fir
kins. The value of this butter depends upon
the care taken to free it from the buttermik,
and the knowledge and taste required to fla.
vor it, by the proper use Of salt, aud the neat
ness with which the whole process of making
it is characterized.
The consumers of butter are obliged to pay
from twenty to forty cents per pound more
for butter brought to their cities and large
towns weekly than the average price of our
country and packed butter; and this,
too, when its intrinsic value is no more.
This is owing entirely to want Of proper
knowledge of the mode of preservation after
it comes into possession of the family by whom
it is used. The country made and packed
butter is kept in the dairy-cellar or spring.
house from the date of milking until sent to
market, retaining all the qualities as when
first made.
This is done by excluding the air by the
simple process of keeping the package cover
ed with brine made Of salt, strong enough to
float an egg. When sold, and as soon as it is
to be delivered, the brine is drained off entire
ly by reversing the package and leaving it
bottom up for twelve or tweutyfour hours
1t is then headed up, and goes to market
without the brine. The consumer is interest.
ed in getting possession Of his supply as soon
after it leaves the dairy cellar as possible.
He should first take out the head, driving
the hoops back to their place, and then make
brine with pure water and Ashton salt, and
cover the butter with it, and keep it covered
until the last pound is used. The butter kept
Just covered is easily cut out of the size re-
quired for use and if then held under the ny
drant or pitcher and water poured over il
freely it will be fit for the table, and the last
pound will prove as good as the first.
No fear need be entertained that the brine
will impart its taste to the butter. The office
it performs is to prevent the air from contact
with the butter. The writer knows that firkit
butter has been kept year, by this simple
and inexpensive process, as sweet and with al
the flavor it possessed the day it was made
and packed Country Gentleman.
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HINrs.-Water-lim applied with dry
soft cloth, will give glass nice, clear cast
Dry paint is removed by dipping swat
with the handle in strong solution of oxall
acid. 1t softens at once.
IF stove-polsh is mixed with soft soap, tn
lustre appears Immediately, and the dust o
the polish does not fly around as it usual.
does
Vinegar boiled with myrrh or camphor
and sprinkled in room, corrects putridty
Gold bronze for furniture is mixture o
copal varnish with gold.colored bronze-pow
der. The last is bisul phate of tin. .,
Sprigs of wintergreen or ground Ivy vii
drive away red ants branches of wormwoo'
will serve the same purpose for black ants.
Lemon,juice used as gargle, is said, by
French physician, to be specific against dip
liberia and similar throat troubles, and ha
been successfully used for eighteen years.