23* MINUTES MAY 



1 08. this laft operation, however, is as yet performed 

 CKtESE. -with great care and delicacy. 



Having thus vvalhed and (craped them two 

 pr three times (in the courfe of about a week 

 from the firft cleanfmg) fhe removes them from 

 the dairy-fticlves into fome fpacious airy room, 

 with a firm even Boor, which (he firft rubs plen- 

 tifully with green fucculent nettles, fo as to 

 give it a temporary greennefs, and then places 

 her cheefes in rows upon the prepared floor. 

 She now waihes them no more; but, if the 

 coat be yet rough, and the fcurf continue to 

 rife, fhe fcrapes them more freely than before ; 

 and, as the rind get? harfh, foftens it with 

 butter; thus continuing to treat them, and flill 

 continuing to turn them once a day, until they 

 acquire a rich golden polifh, and the blue coat 

 begin to fhew itfelf. 



This crifis, namely, the appearance of the 

 blue coat, is not altogether regulated by the 

 age of the cheefe, but depends on its quality 

 and the ftate of the weather. Perhaps it may 

 appear before the cheefe be one, perhaps not 

 until it be more than two, or even three, months 

 old ; therefore, no certain number of cleanings 

 can be fixed; thefe rules, however, maybe 

 pbfervable : fcrape and rub them, until they be 



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