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Artificial Buttermilk. Natural buttermilk from fresh 

 cream ripened with a lactic culture is perhaps the best 

 quality of this product that can be secured; but in many 

 places this cannot be obtained at any price. Much of the 

 buttermilk of to-day has undesirable flavors in it. Because 



FIG. 46. Progress milk fermenting machine. 



of this fact, preparations are now found on the market 

 which have all the characteristics of good buttermilk, but 

 are not by-products of butter making. These preparations 

 are made of whole milk, of partly skimmed milk, or of 

 wholly skimmed milk. A method of making a so-called 

 " skim-milk buttermilk " is as follows: 



