BUTTER AND CHEESE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20625, 5 August 1941, Page 6

BUTTER AND CHEESE

UNREFRIGERATED TEST PREMIER’S INSPECTION LONDON, July 9. “Very satisfactory” was the comment made on samples of experimental shipments of unrefrigerated Ne>\ Zealand cheese and butter by the Prime Minister, Mr. P. Fraser, when he visited the Port of London to examine the recently arrived produce. He was informed that, generally speaking, the cheese had been less affected by the voyage than the butter, which was inclined to be slightly rancid. It was considereo that, although the samples were of a good standard, 'further experimental shipments might be desirable before large-scale consignments could bi ordered from the Dominion. Mr. Fraser tasted both the buttei and the cheese and was frank in his layman opinions. He considered tha. the full cream cheese, which had been packed in sawdust, was superior tc the standardised cheese. While lu agreed that there was a taste of rancidness about the butter, he made hi: point that it was better that n should be shipped to England lor consumption than remain stored in New Zealand. In the shipment of unrefrigerated cheese there was only 1 per cent mort wastage than in refrigerated shipments, totalling in all about 41 per cent. One consignment suffered from the attention of rats during the voyage.

On the whole, the butter was not regarded as 'being quite up to the same standard, and a sample of pure butter-fat. which can be reconstituted to butter, was considered to be onl> fair. Mr. Fraser was told that it had not yet been found possible to remove a slight “caramel” taste.