Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1918-07-11
EASY TO PRODUCE
BUTTER AT HOME
Proper Equipment Is Great Aid to
Observation-Disclosures
Is Essential.
STERILIzER IS convenience
Product Should Never Be Touched
With the Bare Hands-Sanltary and
Attractive Wrapping Of Much
Assistance In Marketing.

There is no secret In making good
butter. With proper care and atten-
ton to details good butter can be made
in any home. The quality of the but
ter is dependent upon the intelligent
use of equipment rather than the kind,
although suitable equipment is time
saving and labor-saving and can be
purchased or made at nominal cost.
Milk vessels should be Of high-grade
tin with all joints and seams smoothly
soldered so that there will be no crew
ices in which dirt may accumulate.
A convenient milk can to use is the
three-gallon shotgun can. 1t should
have a smooth, heavily timed interior
to prevent rusting and difficulty in
cleaning. All butter-making equipment
should be thoroughly scrubbed with a
brush In hot water containing sal soda
or washing powders. Never use dish
cloth or soap. inexpensive stiff fiber
scrub brushes or vegetable brushes
can be purchased at any grocery or
hardware store. After equipment is
washed 1t should be scalded or
steamed. A homemade sterilizer will
be found most convenient and helpful.
Never Touch With Bare Hands.
A medium-sized dipper strainer with
fine-meshed gauze has been found
to be very satisfactory. 1t should be
smooth and free from seams. Butter
should not be touched or handled with
the bare hands. 1t Injuries the quality
of the butter and is very insanitary.
Wooden ladies can be easily whitfield
from maple, ash, or poplar, or bought
at small cost. A thermometer is alb
solutely essential to successful butter
making. Controlling temperatures is
second only to keeping equipment
clean. A floating dairy thermometer
can be ordered from any dairy supply
company.
In making butter the salt should be
uniformly distributed and the granules
pressed together into a close-grained
mass and the surplus water worked
out. This can be most easily accom-
plished by use Of V-shaped lever
butterworl1er made of one-inch mate
ash, or poplar. the material Of which
all wooden butter equipment is made.
Any woods from which odors or fla
vors might be absorbed by the butter
should not be used.
Butter Workers Convenient
For the amount Of butter made in
most homes a butter worker IS inches
long, 16 inches at the wide end and 21s
inches at the narrow end Is a conven-
lent size. The sides are cut 8 inches
wide and are screwed to the bottom.
The corrugated roller having six or
eight sides is "a inches long. One
end Of the roller Is shaped to fit
small hole made In the piece across the
narrow end Of the worker. This end
piece is Of width that leaves a slot
just above the bottom Of the worker
which allows the water to drain Off
into pan as the roller is pressed firm
ly backward and forward over the but
ter. The worker rests ON three knobs
or supports. The two knobs at the
wide end are 31h inches high, while
the knob at the narrow end is pa
inches.
The most popular, convenient and
attractive butter mold is the brick
shaped or sQuare-cornered mold. This
mold can be made Of %-inch material.
The mold most commonly used is Az
by 2h by 2% inches. An inch hole
is bored through the center Of the top
and through the center Of a plunger
which fits closely into the mold.
Through the hole in the top Of the
mold is inserted the round handle
which screws into the hole In the
plunger. Most satisfactory molds of
this type can be found on the market.