PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE WITH MILK

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18248, 5 August 1921, Page 8

PRECAUTIONS TO TAKE WITH MILK

A bottle of milk should never be opened until the bottle has been thoroughly washed, says “Gas Logic” (New York). The same hands that grasp the greasy reins of the milk cart horse handle your morning’s delivery of milk. A stray cat, hungry after a night of revelry, may be inclined to give an idle milk bottle “the once-over" before slinking to cover in some black alley. Once the cap of the bottle has been removed, the milk should not be allowed to remain uncovered an instant longer than is absolutely necessary. Milk spoils easily, so that it is essential that it be kept as free as possible from all scouring influences. “Clean, cold and covered” should be the housekeeper’s motto with regard to her milk supply. There should be a special place in the ice box for the bottles; if actual contact with the ice is possible, so much the better. Ice itself must never be put into the milk for the purpose of cooling it, for there is no way of estimating the amount of filth contained in one small piece of ice. The best method of covering a bottle from which the cap has been removed is to invert a tumbler over the neck of the bottle. If possible only bottled milk should be used. Even with prices as high as they now are, milk is a cheap article of food. Where it is often advisable to economise in the household budget, there is no economy in buying cheap grades of milk.