ADULTERATION OF BUTTER.
TO THE EDITOB OF THE PBESS. Sib, —I am in a small way, but I have heard lately many complaints about our butter, and finding that the great fault about the modicum that I buy is that it will not keep, I thought I would try and find out the cause. I got a pound and put if into a basin of cold water, and worked it for some time through my hands, and was rather surprised at observing large lumps of mutton fat in it. A bill has been passed by which brewers can be fined £500 for adulterating beer (whenever is the filth that is brewed here to be analysed ?) —but I think people who make such villanous compounds as I have mentioned, and call it butter —one of the actual necessaries of life—should be rendered liable for as heavy a penalty. Trusting these facts may open people's eyes a bit, Wobking Man.
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Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1828, 20 February 1869, Page 2
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