Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1895-10-17
CREAM IN THE CITY.
Less Demand Tor 1t In Summer Than
WInter--MOrN ButtermIlk Drunk.


Less Demand Tor 1t In Summer Than
winter-Moro Buttermiik Drunk.
Although the consumption of milk
increases greatly In hot weather, the
consumption of cream by private fam
lilies falls off, because many OF the
ordinary purchasers are absent from
the city. Cream is luxury in New
York. Most families never buy it.
Few buy enough rich milk to yield any
useful qua nifty of cream. Milk to be
admitted for sale inpst have twelve per
cent. of cream, and large part of the
milk sold barely reaches the required
richness.
The poor are lucky If they are able
to buy a quart of milk day, and
those that buy more give most of 1t to
young children to whose health
and growth 1t Is indispensable.
Probably few of those families that
maSeshift to get on with quart of
milk day set their milk to raise cream
over night, and If they do the quantity
of cream obtained will hardly more
than season two cups of coffee, If in
| deed so much.
The 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-fifths milk to
three-fifths cream, is used by the ordi-
nary ice cream makers. Twenty
pound cream is supposed to yield
twenty pounds of butter to forty
quarts of cream. There is thirty
pound, forty pound and sixty-pound
cream. Forty pound cream yields
in butter pound for quart, while
sixty-pound cream is so thick
that it has to be handled with the aid
of spoon, as 1t refuses to run. 1t is
obtained either by the centrifugal
process of extracting cream from milk
Or by keeping it for some hours at a
low temperature in an iced can. Clot-
ted or Devonshire cream is obtained
by raising the milk to high temper
AZURE and then letting the cream rise
upon the surface. This is an expen-
sive luxury that few persons like on
first making its acquaintance. 1t has
the advantage of being perhaps free
from germs that might have been
found in the milk before it
was sterilized by heat. The doctors
say that ordinary domestic meth
DDS of sterilizing are by no
means sure to succeed A good
deal of the so-called heavy cream is
produced by considerable admixture
of arrowroot. 1t does not affect the
wholesomeness of the cream, since ar
rowroot is easily digested
With the increased sale of milk for
drinking in summer there is also a
great increased sale Of buttermillS for
that purpose. This is an uncommonly
lucky public taste for the milk dealers
of a larger sort, for when milk threat
ems to sour on their hands 1t Is
churned, less for the butter than the
buttermills, though the butter, too, is
sold. 1t is necessary to. have sew
eral hundred quarts of buttermilk
a day if the dealer does large
business, and especially IL he
sells much milk over the counter to be
drunk on the premises or to be car
ried away. Every such milk, dealer
/ has large churn run by machinery
and every day many gallons Of ihill
churned for butter or buttermilk
Poor folks with no babies to feed buy
the buttermilk at half the price Of
sweet milk. The saloons keep it also
and there is a theory that it is an ad
mirable thing to taper off with aftel
spree. 1t has acquired this reputa
ton probably because Of the fact tina
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