2* MINUTES .MAY 



To8. cloth ; and replaced in the prefs. On Tuefday 

 CHEESE. morning it is bare-vatted, or the cloth changed } 



the cheeiling, in either cafe, being turned, and 

 again put into the prefs. On Tuefday evening 

 it is again turned ; and on Wednefday morning 

 finally taken out of the vat and prefs. 



4. The cheefe. The objects of this moft 

 laborious department of cheefemaking are, to 

 preferve the cheefe found in itfelf, and to give 

 it fuch an appearance as will recommend it to a 

 purchafer. 



Cheefes newly made, naturally acquire a 

 white fcurfy coat ; which, befides hiding, if not 

 caufmg, the defects of the cheefe, is at leaft un- 

 fightly, and is a certain mark of the flovenli- 

 nefs of its maker. This fcurf arifcs more plen- 

 tifully on a poor than on a rich cheefe. Cold 

 moift weather encourages it; but, in warm 

 weather, the oily exudation of a rich and well- 

 made cheefe goes near of itfelf to eradicate the 

 white, and bring on that deiirable blue coat, 

 which is at once a criterion of the goodnefs of 

 the cheefe and of the fkilfulnefs of the dairy, 

 woman. 



The Norfolk dairy-woman, however t pays 

 little regard to appearances ; and, to fpeak truly 

 of her, is equally ambitious to pleafc the eye 



