WHAT IS BUTTER?
SCIENTIFIC DISPUTE A joke on the cows is reported by Messrs. William Clayton and James Frederick Morse, London scientists. They put a dash of saponin, a white powder used to make beverages foamy, into good butter cream. Thereafter hours of churning failed to make any butter. They were trying to settle an old scientific dispute—what is butter? One theory said it was an emulsion, a mixture of fat and water. The other said it was not. They think they have proved that butter is not an emulsion, but just, a lot of fat, since their white powder prevented the fat and the protein in the milk separating and no butter was formed. This, they say, demonstrates that churning separates the proteins and fats, and the fat globules mass together into butter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 10
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134WHAT IS BUTTER? Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 10
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