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To Preserve Milk

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Preserve Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Ensure bottles are perfectly clean, sweet, and dry.

  2. Pour fresh milk into the bottles and cork them tightly.

  3. Secure the corks with pack thread or wire.

  4. Place straw in the bottom of a boiler and arrange the bottles with straw between them.

  5. Fill the boiler with cold water and heat until it begins to boil.

  6. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely.

  7. Once cold, pack the bottles with straw or sawdust in hampers.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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