DEVONSHIRE CREAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 75, 3 February 1879, Page 2

DEVONSHIRE CREAM.

As a rule, Devonshire creani, iss valued and appreciated very highlyVMtae who '■'.'■; are fortunate enough to bo able it '.' think themselves highly Some young folks of my acqamtance'speht' the '■'"■:•- summer at Ilfracombe a year, o'r|wo. ago, ' and they were so e])tliusinstil.abput cream that they were to . market on a market day," making the old ■',- wonie.n mugs'jiaiid jars, land', cups that contained.the delicacy, and en- • ■ treating, their -mother to'lay in a goodly store of the same.'. Then they ate-the cream ,' instead of butter at'breakfast, .and had . . tJiejcceSin;with" jam 'andCbfeiuJ fSl'-pd-ding at dinner, and cream at lea,' and cream whenever they could get it. between . meals';'; a'ud-when they returned to-iown,. healthy and strong, after their summer's trip was over, they declared that they owed : '• their rosy cheeks and bright- eyes quite ,as much to the. Devonshire' creain they had indulged in as to the. fresh, sea breezes, and rest, and change..': These children hail a. 1 great desire to feed how Devonshire cfeairi ' was made., so one day wo made an expedi- , '-. tion to a farm-house a few miles, butjwhich was kept by a Mend of our landlady; ; an.d there they saw how their favorite delicacy was produced.;; The beautiful.'milkf-yesr terday's—was put into polished'' shallow tin pans, over a low clear...fire,,quite free from.smoke,'and was,to remain-there,' gradually heating, ■■ but never-being.' al- - lowed to get any were near boiling, for twelve hours, .till the ;cream was ready-to ■ . take Off,-., We were -fortunate, onough to see it just as it was being lifted' from the . "' Are. It lay in a kind of thick ring on the top of the fluid, and ■.■_ it was'wemain untouclied until the next., when it would he - skimmed off' and ■ ■put into jars ready.for sale. ■ .-.