Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-06
THE BUTTER MOTHER MADE.

housewives magazine prints pic
lures of the latest improved butter
worker side by side with pictures Of a
farm wife churning with dash and
working the product Of her labors with
a ladle in an old fashioned butter bowl.
The magazine is Mortified over the al
legged insanitation Of Mrs. Farmer in
the cellar with the crock churn and has
thrown a few potatoes on the floor to
accentuate the horror Of the situation.
1t has kept the sunbonnet on ma S
head and she is reading as she churns.
Frightfully insanitary. And we some
times pay extra for butter made thus
adds the magazine TO add sense OF
| financial injury to the indictment.
You bet they do pay extra for the
butter made by real home butter max
ars with crock churns, ladies and butter
bowls. It's worth it. It's the way mother
used to make it, tho memory is buster
with a picture of boy who wanted
to get away fastened to the churn dash
rather than of mother reading as she
churned. In the hot summer time we
used 10 cfurn down cellar too. Also the
of the deep sheltered basement. And
when the butter came upon the table
it was as different from ordinary
Creamery as a violet from may
weed 1t had flavor that no creamery
has ever been able to touch. 1t whis-
pered of cool eventides and the per-
fumed breath of contented cows and
pastures where the sweet williams
grew and long shady uplands of tender
bluegrass and lanes along the woods.
1t had grain and color and delighted
the eye as il enraptured the palate. II
was more than food. 1t was poetry
and painting and sculpture all in one,
the work of an artist in its moulding,
it's color and in it's compound of de-
lightful essences. There was never but
ter like that which came from the old
dasher churns of earthenware and the
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mothers.
Insanitation your Grandmother! That
butter was as clean and healthful as a
baby's breath. If there was ever any
hint of insanitary proceeding 1t was
when the youthful slave of the churn
ran his finger along the dasher rod and
he
from the finger Ever do that? Re-
member how you used to beg mother to
put little hot water in the cream
| to hasten the coming" of the butter?
Recall how you "spattered" when she
refused and held you to your task after
| the cruel manner of that fellow Sissy
plus or some such name who had the
| job of rolling the rock uphill in the
Third Reader? Recollect how eagerly
you watched the hole thru which the
| dasher pole passed to see the first
specks Of butter that indicated the
near finish of the task and how small
an indication was required to induce
you to call the attention Of the chie1
i
I buttermaker to the fact that 1t had
come" and to suggest that a little
cold water would accelerate gather
ing" a suggestion unheeded because
water would spoil the buttermilk?
Like everything else butter depends
upon the person who makes 1t. That
butter which was the product Of three
cows, which went thru the processes
from straining the milk thru thu
strainer in the front OF the strainel
pail and thence thru cloth strainer
which was "set" in milk crooks in thu
spring house OF the coo! milk room o.
the cellar, skinned by the deft twis
Of a fore finger around the edge O