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As moft people like to purchafe high-coloured 

 chcefe, it may be right to mix a little annatto with 

 the milk before it is turned ; no checfe will look 

 yellow without it; and though it does not in the 

 leaft add to the goodnefs, it is perfedlly innocent 

 in its nature and efFedts. 



It is not in the power of any perfbn to make good 

 cheefe with bad rennet; therefore the following 

 receipt fhould be attended to. 



Firft; That the velly maWy rennet-hag, (or by 

 whatever other name it is called) be perfedly fweet, 

 for if, it be the leaft tainted, the cheefe will never 

 be good. When this is fit for ufe, three pints or 

 two quarts of foft water (clean and fweet) fhould 

 be mixed with fait, wherein fhould be put fweet- 

 briar, rofe leaves and flowers, cinnamon, mace, 

 cloves, and, in ftiort, almoft every fort of fpice and 

 aromatic that can be procured, and if thefe are put 

 into two quarts of water, they muft boil gently till 

 the liquor is reduced to three pints, and care fhould 

 be taken that this liquor is not fmoaked ; it fliould 

 be ftrained clean from the fpices, &c. and when 

 found to be not warmer than milk from the cow, 

 it fliould be poured upon the veil or maw; a lemon 

 may then be fliced into it, when it may remain a day 

 or two, after which it fhould be ftrained again and 



put 



