a54 '^HE BEE, OR Feb. 16, 



Method qfmah'fig F armefan Cheefe. 



A refpedlaWe correfpondant communicates the fsillowing account of the 

 method of making Parmefan cherfe, in hopes it may prove ufeful for 

 improving the quality of the cheefes of his country. The receipt viras 

 farcught from Italy by Mr. Arthur Young, well known for his la- 

 iours in agriculture. 



The Lodifan is chiefly low grounds, and moftly watered. 



A dairy farm of 100 cows, makes daily a checfe of 70 lb. 

 or' 75 lb. of 28 ounces. The cheefes in winter fmaller, but 

 better. The cows fed only four or five hours a day upon 

 pallure, the reft on hay at liome. Eighty cows for the dai- 

 ry, 20 for calves, and the farm 1000 perticas of land, 800 

 of ftanding meadow, and 200 in corn and grafs. Rotation ; 

 the cows milked twice a day, and give, one with another, 

 about 32 cocallis of 30 oz. of milk. The evening's milk 

 is put to the morning's. At 1 6 Italian hours or fo in the 

 morning, the evening and morning's milk, after being 

 ikimmed, were put together into a boiler, 8 feet diameter 

 at top, 5 feet 3 deep at the bottom, about i\ wide, about 

 ■l-jz cocalli, and put under it two faggots of wood, which 

 made the milk rather more than lukewarm ; then the boil- 

 er was withdrawn from the fire, and a ball of rennit about 

 an ounce weight diffolved in the milk, turning it in the 

 the hand in the milk 5 it was not fufficiently coagulated till 

 about noon, being early in the Spring ; but in Summer it 

 IS done in half or three quarters of an hour ; but they then 

 ufe half as miich more renuit as was coagulated, fo as to be 

 taken in pieces from tlie furface of the boiler. 



The foreman with a flick that had 18 points, or rather 

 9 fmnll pieces of wood fixed by their middle in the end of 

 it, and forming nine points on each fide, began to break 

 exactly all the coagulated milk, and continued to do fo for 

 more tlian half an hour, from time to time examining it to 

 . fee its ftate. He ordered to renew the fire, and four fag» 

 gots of willow branches were ufed all at once. He turned 

 the boiler, that the fire might aft 3 and tlien the uuderman 



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