HOW TO KEEP COOLED MILK COOL.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12474, 26 February 1909, Page 4

HOW TO KEEP COOLED MILK COOL.

We will assume that the mother procures two bottles of humanised milk a day. On receiving them from the cart she should remove the cardboard caps, and thus let in air, but she should oh no -account allow any dust or falling particles to gain access. To prevent this, cover with any cleansed cap or lid, slightly tilted so as to'adinit air; or a piece of perfeettj r clean paper may be twisted loosely over the top of the bottle. If. air is sxcluded by corkiug or by a tight-fit-ting cap; the milk is liable to go bad -.n quite a different way from natural -jourihg, and may then be highly poijonous — just as tinned meat is liable co go bad and cause fatal poisoning. Having covered the bottles; place one of them outside the house in a 0001, -shady safe or airy box, for use during the next eight or nine hpurs. i?ut the other bottle in an ordinary .vooden candle box. Place a clean, \ound coffee or cocoa tin upside down Dyer" the> bottle. FiU tiie box, with ■clean ch&ff ' or ' sawdust. -Now remove the tin- and see; that the level of the jhaff' or sawdust is about an inch beiow the top of the bottle.. Keep the :>ox in an outside safe, or other" cool, iiry. place. ' By this perfectly simple means the iumanised milk delivered cool at the aouse can be kept cool and safe for a ,vhole day in the hottest weatlier, pro.ided the box is not kept in a warm oom, but is outside in the shade. To .•euder'/ assurance doubly sure, when bhe -weather is unusually sultry, the jHother'can scald the last one or two "eedings that she gives from this second bottle by placing the bottle in Varm water in_ a saucepan and bring- - ing the water in the saucepan to the ooil and keeping it at that for five or sen minutes. Then cool as rapidly as possible". • People often make the great misbake of placing the bottles of humanssd milk received from the factory in >rdinary tap water without pausing :o think : that this may be actually 'A'armer, instead of cooler, than the nilk. In this way they soon warm up what has been cooled and kept . joolby iee -water, whereas if they used :haff or' sawdust as directed, milk received, cool would keep practically at ,veH ;io" J w.arni weather, as it does ii. yinter,.and the greatest risk of sumner diarrhoea would be obviated. . . .- v ■-".■■■