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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. Draw milk from the cow into the bottles and cork them immediately.

  3. Fasten the corks with pack-thread or wire.

  4. Spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler and place the bottles with straw between them.

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

  6. Draw the fire and let the whole gradually cool.

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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