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To Preserve Milk

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Preserve Milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill clean, dry bottles with fresh milk from the cow and cork them tightly.

  2. Secure the corks with pack-thread or wire.

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

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

  5. Remove from heat and allow the water to cool completely.

  6. Once cool, remove the bottles and pack them with straw or sawdust in hampers.

  7. Store the hampers in the coolest part of the house.

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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