Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-11-07
CREAM IN THE CITY.
Less Demand Tor II In summer Than
Winter More Iiuttermilk Drunk.

AesS Demand Tor 1t In summer THAI
Winter-M More lIuttermilk Drunk.
Although the consumption Of mill
increases greatly In hot weather, III,
consumption Of cream by private fam
lilies falls off, because many Of III,
ordinary purchasers are absent from
the city Cream Is a luxury In New
York. Most families never buy IT,
Few buy enough rich milk to yield any
useful quantity Of cream, Milk to be
admitted for sale must have twelve Der
cent. OF cream, and u large part Of the
milk sold barely reaches the required
richness.
Tho poor are lucky II they are able
TO buy n quart Of milk n day, md
those that buy more give most Of ii TO
young children to whose health
and growth 1t is Indispensable.
Probably few Of those families Tint
makeshlft to get on with quart OF
milk day set their milk to raise cream
over night, and II they do the quantity
OF cream obtained will hardly more
than season two cups OF coffee, II IN.
deed so much.
Tho ice cream factories increase their
consumption Of cream with the coming
OF summer, but most Of them use the
very cheapest and lightest Twenty.
pound cream, mixed two-llftIs milk to
three-ffths cream, Is used by the ordi-
nary Ice cream makers. Twenty.
pound cream Is supposed to Weld
twenty pounds OF butter to forty
quarts Of cream There Is thirty.
pound, forty-pound and slxty-pound
cream Foreground cream yields
In butter pound for quart, while
sixty-ponnd cream is so thick
that II has to be handled with the aid
OF II spoon, NJ ii refuses TO run. II ia
obtained either by the centrifugal
process OF extracting cream from milk
or by keeping II for some hours at |
low temperature In an iced Gun. CIot- |
ted Or Devonsllre cream Is obtained
by raising the milk to u high temper.
ntire and then letting tho cream rise
upon the surface. This Is an expen-
sive luxury that few persons like on
Ilrst making Its acquaintance. 1t has
Ibe advantage Of being perhaps FREQ
rom germs that might have been
'ound In the milk before It
vas sterillzed by heat. The doctors
'ay that ordinary domestic meth.
'ds Of sterillzing IRE by no
means sure to succeed. A good
leal OF the so-called heavy cream is
Produced bya considerable admlxture
u nrrowroot 1t does not affect the
sholesomeness Of tho cream, since ar.
owroot Is easily digested.
With the increased sale OF milk for
In summer there is also a
reat Increased sale OF buttermllk for
hat purpose, This Is an uncommonIy
lcky public taste for the milk dealers
a lnrger sort, for when milk threat.
MS to sour on their hands II Is
less for the butter than the J
uttermilk, though the butter, too, Is
old. 1t Is necessary to have sew. Q
ral hundred quarts Of buttermilk
day II the dealer does large
uslness, and especially II he {
,lls much milk over the counter to be-
runk on the premises or to be car
ed away. Every such milk dealer
as large churn run by machinery, ,
nd every day many gallons OF milk 8
lnrned for butter or buttermIlk
cor folks with no babies to feed buy
10 butterInilk at half the price OF
yect milk The saloons keep 1t also !
I'D there is a theory that it is I'M nd. Q
irable thing to taper off with after
spree 1t has acquired this repnta. :.
on probably because Of The fact that :,
Is easily digested. IN. Y. Sun u