-Food Fun and Facts Milk Butter and Egg information-> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="author" content="Ann Joy"> <meta name="keywords" content="make butter, dairymaid,milk a cow, From Grass to Milk,60 Ways to Butter Your Bread ,Dried Buttermilk Powder, milk cows, learn about fresh eggs,fresh eggs, dairy, butter making, milking cow, cows, preserving eggs,tell a fresh egg, "> <meta name="description" content="Food Fun and Facts-milk and dairy learn to milk a cow, how to make butter and more dairy tips"> <meta name="generator" content="SubmitFire.com META Tag Generator"> <meta name="Revisit-After" content="5 days"> <meta name="robots" content="all"> </head> <body <blockquote> </a></font><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><br> Food Fun and Facts Butter Making, Eggs, Dairy and Milking Cows<br> </font></small>></center> </blockquote> <div align="center"> </div> <div align="center"> <blockquote> </blockquote> </div> <table style="width: 100%; text-align: left; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 204, 51);" align="center" cols="2" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: center; vertical-align: top; width: 45%;" align="center" bgcolor="#ffcc33" width="50%"> <blockquote> <center><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><font color="#000000"><big><small><br> Old Time Dairy Milk, Milking, Making Butter and Fresh Eggs<br> <br> </small></big></font></font></center> </blockquote> <div align="center"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><b><font color="#990000">How to Make Butter:</font> </b><br> </small></font> </small></div> <div align="left"><small> </small></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> Now that you plenty of fresh milk, you will want to make butter! </small></font></small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Here's how: Set the milk according to directions<br> given; then skim; stir the cream every day; and the day before churning, set the pot near the stove to allow the<br> cream to warm and get sour. To sour the cream, take the milk after it has stood 9 or 10 hours and place<br> it over a clear slow fire, but do not boil it. <br> <br> In summer the process of scalding should be quicker than in winter, <br> as in very hot weather, if the milk should be kept too long over a slow fire, it would be apt to run or curdle. <br> Now turn all the cream into the churn.</small> <small>The coloring (if any is to be used) should be added now or <br> worked into the butter after churning, but by adding it during the process or before churning, the color will<br> be more evenly mixed with the butter. In churning care should be taken that the agitation is not too rapid <br> or so violent as to injure the grain of the butter. Churning should occupy from 1/2 to 3/4 of an hour; if the butter should be hard and granular, refusing to come together well, throw in a little warm water, churning all the while, and the butter wil<br> be gathered and ready to take up. Then work it until the buttermilk is worked out; this is an important feature. <br> Buttermilk contains the sugar, casein and salt of the milk, and when it is procured from sweet cream is both <br> delicious and nourishing, besides being easy of digestion. One ounce of fine purified dairy salt should<br> be used for each pound of butter. The quality of the salt should be strong marine, free from the brine of mineral salt.<br> The longer the butter is to be kept the greater the proportion of salt which should be used. <br> Summer butter is the best for salting.<br> <br> <a href="butter.htm">An Easy Way for Kids to Make Butter!<br> </a><br> </small></font> <hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><br> </small></font><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>2 Cups of Butter equal 1 pound <br> 2 Cups of Lard equal 1 pound</small></font></small><br> </div> <blockquote> <blockquote> <br> <center><small> </small></center> </blockquote> <center></center> </blockquote> <center><small> </small></center> <center><small> </small></center> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <center><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small> </small></small></font></small></center> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <center><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><font color="#000000"><b>Want to learn to milk a cow?</b><br> </font></small></font></small></small></font></small></center> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Milk is a source of profit to the farmer when sold in its original state or made up into butter and cheese. <br> To have good milk requires good food for the cows, for unless they are so fed it would b folly to expect <br> any satisfactory returns. <br> </small></font></small></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Then again, care should be taken to keep them perfectly clean and comfortably housed. </small></font></small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Animals suffer<br> the the inclemency of the weather, and a cow when distressed from any source shows it in the quality <br> of her milk. To make good butter requires good milk, therefore the cows should be well fed and properly cared for. <br> </small></font></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>In milking observe the following rules: Do not use a cow milking machine. They do not give good service, <br> and in time injure the cow, besides causing them to run dry quicker. The hand method is best. <br> The milker should work both hands rapidly, keeping up a constant flow<br> until the udder is empty, when (except in severely cold weather) the milk will be crested with a fleecy foam. <br> Cleanliness is one great point to be kept in view. The best time to milk is either before or after feeding-never<br> while the cow is eating. Do not draw the milk<br> with a downward jerk; it irritates the cow and oftimes works injury to the bag. Fill the teat, and with<br> a firm pressure on the last three fingers empty it, drawing slightly on the teat and udder at the same time;<br> so proceed alternately with each hand until the supply of <br> milk is exhausted. The cow should be milked regularly and stripped quite clean.</small></font></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>The milk will be quite thin in quality before calving, and should not be used for some days after calving, <br> as at such times it is fit only for the use of the calf. Before setting, the milk should be strained into cans <br> and then set into cold water as fast as the cows are milked. Never mix the night's milk with the morning's. </small></font></small></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>If cream is wanted for immediate use, enough will rise in 2 or 3 hours; for butter let it set at least 24 hours; <br> 36 hours is the time in which all the cream will rise.<br> <br> </small></font><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>In skimming the creams should be taken off either early in the morning or in the evening after sunset. <br> Take it off neatly and carefully with a skimmer; deposit it in clean stone crocks or a tin pail if for butter, <br> or the cream jug if for immediate use. If the cream is for super, skim the morning's milk, if<br> for breakfast that of the night before. </small></font></small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>To prevent souring from thunder storms, start a fire in the dairy; this should be done <br> even in the hottest weather.<br> </small></font></small></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> <p><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Another good plan, which answers at all times, is to add to each quart 15 grains of bicarbonate of soda. <br> A thin iron chain passed <br> through the milk pans and the ends kept in cold water will prevent souring. <br> </small></font></small></small></font></small></p> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small> </small></font></small> <center><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small> </small></small></font></small></center> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>The average dairy cow produces about 200,000 glasses of milk in their lifetime</small></font></small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> Before Milking machines <br> were introduced, the dairy farmer could milk 5-6 cows an hour! 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background-color: rgb(255, 204, 51); text-align: center; width: 45%;" align="center" width="100%"> <center> </center> <center><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"> </font> <center></center> </center> <center> <center></center> </center> <center> <center></center> </center> </a> <div align="center"><br> </div> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><font color="#000000"> </font></font> <hr size="2" width="100%"><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><font color="#000000"><small> </small> </font></font><font color="#000000"><font center="" face="Comic Sans <div align="> </font></font><br> </i></small></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"> <center> <font color="#000000"><small>Drinking a lot of milk is thought to prevent <br> colon cancer in some people.<br> </small></font></font></i></small></font><br> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> <br> <br> </small></font></small></small></font></small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><a href="foodfun.htm">Back to Food Fun</a></font></i></small></font><br> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><br> <br> <br> <br> </a><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><br> </small></font></small></small></font></small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><br> </small></font></small></small></font></small><br> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small> </small></font></small></small></font></small><b class="sans">Dried Buttermilk Powder<br> </b>Tired of buying a quart of buttermilk when you really only need half a cup? <br> <br> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" width="100%"> <div align="center"> </a></b> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><br> </small></font></small></small></font></small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><font color="#990000"></font></small></font></small></i></small></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small></small></font></i></small></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><font color="#000000">Buttermilk<br> <small><br> Farmer's families seldom appreciate what a delicious and healthful drink they have <br> in homemade buttermilk.<br> It was the fashionable drink in New York last summer, and brokers, bankers, and merchants indulged<br> in it at three cents a glass from street stands or wagons. Ice is not an essential where a beverage<br> can be stored to cool in a porous earthen jar in a cold cell or milk room, such as belongs to every family.<br> <i><br> From Healy & Bigeow's New Cookbook 1890<br> <br> Like the above information?<br> You can get this information and lots more like it in the book,<br> "Keeping Hearth and Home in Old Massachusetts"<br> Click on the book below to order!<br> <br> <br> </i></small></font></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><font color="#990000">Want to tell if an egg is fresh or not?</font> <br> A fresh egg's shell is rough and chalky looking. <br> An old egg will have a shell that is smooth and shiny!</small></font></small> </i></small></font> <p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i><small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Another method: Place the egg in a pot of cold, salted water. If the egg sinks, it is fresh. <br> If it floats, not fresh-throw away! </small></font></small></i></small></font></p> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small><i> <small><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="+1"><small>Have eggs in your refrigerator, and can't tell if they are raw or hard boiled? 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