NEW DISCOVERY IN BUTTER MAKING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 375, 29 January 1880, Page 2

NEW DISCOVERY IN BUTTER MAKING.

A discovery has been -lately made which brings a new element.into the calculation of the future of the trade in butter. Jromttie high position which the Aylesbury.miry Company occupies, that comi® re °°ntinaully applied-to with ■ reference to schemes, plans, and patents for improvements in dairy work; innumer-. of inventors, and hitherto they., have ; proved of little praoticai value, At last, hpwever, [a prqcess of. preserving, biitter ' has been proved successful,,the result in* • volvmg great consequences which' no one ■ yet can adequately forsee. " On the. 24th of July, Mr G, M. Allender, the'm&naging director of the company, put a'churning iof butter to the test, treating it in accor- ;. dance with a'new patent brought before him. The butter, in. a muslin cloth,. wa» | placed m a firkin, without, a particle of . salt, and every precaution taken to insure that there could be no tampering with the • experiment, l The lirkin remained on the premises at St Petersburg.Place,,Bayßwater, for three months, and, when examined on the 24th October, it was as ™nd, and sweet as when first put in. rractifcally this butter was exposed to the atmosphere during the whole time, seeing that air found free admittance , into the ut , "Mout treatment , the . butter would have gone completely putrid; button smiling and tasting it we found it p«J&. fectly sweet, firm, and so excellent flavor that we could not tell it from butter < made the day before. Expertß in ; the business, both in this country and in Ireland have had samples, and pronounced • the preservation wonderful; the only difference they find being that newly-made butter (and this first-rate of its kind) has a peculiar aroma not quite equalled in the preserved butter; while the latteris con- v sidered a little "dead;?so that just a : ; ; trace of saltiiiit would, be an improve- 1 ment._ The butter, worked with a trifling quantity of .the.patent.material (alleged to be perfectly harmless)sdirectly after ' : churning, _ keeps good and sweet for months without any particular packing or any care bestowed upon its situation or temperature, except that, like other ' butter, it ; has to be kept in a moderately vi cool plaoe. Probably this new odorless, ■ tasteless, and innocuous antiseptic may work other wonders with meat, fish, and like perishable food commodities.