. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. i"\^. :_; Can. bad. We only mention the earthenware milk-pots of the Bretagne, &c. (Fig. 314), the Bessin (Fig. 315), and Isigny (Fig. 316). Flat dishes are also used a great deal. For taking the cream off, shells, tin and wooden spoons, sometimes perforated, are employed. The newer methods of milk-setting have as yet found few fi-iends in France. BUTTER-JIAKING. The most famous French butter is made in the Bessin district of Normandy, and is known as "Â
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. i"\^. :_; Can. bad. We only mention the earthenware milk-pots of the Bretagne, &c. (Fig. 314), the Bessin (Fig. 315), and Isigny (Fig. 316). Flat dishes are also used a great deal. For taking the cream off, shells, tin and wooden spoons, sometimes perforated, are employed. The newer methods of milk-setting have as yet found few fi-iends in France. BUTTER-JIAKING. The most famous French butter is made in the Bessin district of Normandy, and is known as "»â¢#â #»-. finest quality. The process is described by Mr. II. ^I. Jenkins in the following manner:â " In this district the cows are milked morning and evening, and in some cases three times a day, into jug-shaped vessels, made of copper lined with tm, and holding about i, gallons each. The milk is taken to the dairy, and that from the several cows being more or less mixed together, it is strained through a sieve lined with clean linen into earthenware buckets. These buckets are placed in a row in the milk- house, generally on a course or two .of brick- work raised above the gene- ral level of the floor, and the milk is then set for twelve hours. The cream skimmed after the first twelve hours is not mixed with what is taken ofi: afterwards until immediately before churning, and in some instances butter of ex- ceptional delicacy for Paris is made entirely from the twelve hours' cream. Some farmei-s let the milk stand twenty-four hours in summer and forty-eight in winter, and others even longer still, but it is almost needless to add that they do not get the best price for their butter. Nor does the. 'â (â /-'â ."â¢'^^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Sheldon, John Princ
Size: 1429px × 1748px
Photo credit: © Central Historic Books / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookleafnumber587, bookyear1880
