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

  2. Draw milk from the cow into the bottles and cork them tightly.

  3. Place a layer of straw in 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 let cool completely.

  6. Take out the bottles and pack them with straw or sawdust in hampers.

  7. Store in the coolest part of the house or ship.

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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