Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-03-24
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What Can be Seen In u Pittsburgh, Factor.
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What Can be Seen In u Pittsburgh Factory.
Pittsburgh Post.
There are many people in Pittsburgh as
we'll as in other cities throughout the
country who imagine that if they should
by accident cat Oleomargarine instead of
butter they would die az once rs though
they had partaken of an equal quantity OF
prussic acid or arsenic. This feeling like
any other general prejudice is based more
upon tradition and custom than upon any
real objection. It is true that some of the
manufactured butter is very injurious, but
that is no reason why all kinds of the
article should be condemned. Nothing
would SO surely and SO rapidly remove this
feeling as a visit to the oleomargarine fac
tory on Water street, near Ferry. The
writer had just as much prejudice against
olemargarine in general as anyone before
he made tour through the Pittsburgh
factory a few days ago. The idea that
butter could be made of fat originated
with a French scientist. He had been
deputed by the government to devise some
sort of bread that would be better than
the hard-tack that was then in use. The
scientist succeeded admirably, and then
the government desired him to get up
something to spread on his bread which
would be cheaper than butter. He made
experiments, bus it was not until the
siege of Paris that he devoted himself
entirely to the work. Then he dis
covered in the fat of a ''fresh" COW
the true butter globule. He extracted it
and churned it, and found it made butt er.
Cows were scarce, bat buliocks were
plenty. This led him to make further ex-
periments and he found that bui!ocks' fat
made even better butter than that Of
cows. His butter was tasteless and to re-
move this fault he ground up cows rem
nets and mixed them through his butter
thus giving it the taste of pcpsic acid that
is needed. Since that time some Ameri-
cans have made this sort Of butter entire
ly from fat, but the manager Of the
present mandatory in this city
has made some important changes
in the process. In his factory tho
butter is made Of sixty per cent.
of Alderney milk and forty per cent.
Of oleomargarine. The milk used costs
butter factories that use milk alone, and
at its delicious yellow richness. The com
composed of a number of tho butchers of
the two cities and the managers of the
works. Nearly all of the large butchers ia
the cities are interested in the enterprise,
and they reserve the finest of the cattle fat
that they handle, for the factory. The fat
is very clean and pure and is carefully and
repeatedly washed and cleaned before it is
used. The process of boiling the fat and
extracting the butter oil or Oleomargarine
has already been described in er!enso and
We will not repeat it.
Standing beside the men who were max.
ing the butter up into cute little rolls and
inviting patters the writer called to mind
a visit made once to an Orange county"
creamery the butter which he saw there
was no finer to look at than that
which was made in the Pittsburgh factory.
Along the Hudson river at Milton, at
Tarrytown, and at dozens of small towns
in Dutchess county, New York, there
are famous butter makers from
whose churns comes "Dutchess county
gilt edged butter' which sells to
Delmonico and others all the year
round at dollar pound. We have tried
this butter at the places where it is made.
We can recall the visions of hot biscuit
covered with it. Tho butter of the Pitts
burgh factory has the same taste and the
same look as that of the New York farm
ers. As proof of its excellence We can
say that it sells in the New York market
(the finest grades of course) at sixty and
seventy cents pound. Many families in
the city have thought Of late that their
butter was better than usual. Perhaps if
the heads of families were consulted, they |
could tale unfold OF oleomargarine.