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jfcd *. Mix them very well with the fine fait : With this fait, 

 work your butter, until the butter milk be entirely ex- 

 traded. Then pack it in wooden fnkins, faking it with 

 the fame mixed fait, to fuch a degree as to be palatable, 

 when eaten with bread, and no falter. The mixture is 

 flronger than fine fait : Of confequcnce fomething lefs is 

 required. 



By order of the Society, 



W. COXE,juN, SecV^y. 



DrrvSCTioNS for the. manufacturing SUGAR 



from the Mafle Tree. 



[_From tlii America:.' InIuseum.] 



LF the fap is drawn into wooden vefiels, care fhould 

 l)e taken that they are made of fuch wood as will not give 

 jthe liquor a bad tafte. Some maple fugar has a difagree- 

 jible tafte, occafioned, as I have been informed, by the fap 

 having been put into trays made of the white walnut. If the 

 moulds are made of wood, they alfo fhould be madeof fome 

 liind of tree that will give notafle. The greateft part of 

 the maple fugar I have feen, has too fmall a grain ; which 

 is owing to two caufes ; one is, the makers of it do not ufe 

 lime or lye, or any thing elfe, to make it granulate ; the 

 other is, that they bqil the fugar too much. — The quan- 

 tity of lime neceiTary to anfwer the purpofe, I cannot ex- 

 actly afcertain ; but I fuppofe 51 heaped fpoonful of flack- 

 ed lime would be fufficient for about fix gallons of fap, 

 A judicious perfon after a few trials, would be able to fix the 

 due proportion. It may, however, be proper to mention, 

 that if the quantity of lime is too fm^ill, the fugar will not 

 be fufficiently grained ; if too much, it will give the fugar 

 a reddifh cafl, I have before obfcrved, that the fugar 

 ihould not be boiled fo much as has been the common, 

 pradice. That, from Vv'hich runs about one fixth of its 

 weight in mehifTes, in twenty four hours after it is put to 

 drain, 1 think, has been boiled properly ; perhaps, in 



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