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If the butter come in fmall particles which 109. 

 are flow in uniting, {train off part of the but- BUTTER, 

 ter-milk ; and the butter in general will fooner 

 gather. Reverfing the motion generally gathers 

 the butter quickeft -f-. 



5. Making up the butter. When the butter 

 is fufficiently gathered in the churn, which is 

 known by the largenefs of the lumps, and 

 the cleannefs of the dajhers, it is taken out; 

 kneaded in a bowl, or other fhallow vefiel, 

 to let out the butter-milk ; fpread thin over the 

 infide of the bowl, and clean cold water poured 

 over it; kneaded, broken, and re-fpread in 

 the water ; the water poured off; the butter 

 beaten, in large lumps or handfulls of three or 

 four pounds, againft the fide of the bowl ; 

 re-fpread ; faked ; the fait worked in ; re- 

 \vafhed ; and re-beaten, until the water come . 

 off unfullied ; which it will do after two or 

 three wafhings. It is then broken jnto pound- 

 lumps ; re-beaten againfl the bowl; and printed, 

 or otherwife made up. 



But before the dairy-woman begins to take 

 the butter out of the churn, Ihe firft fcalds, 

 and then plunges immediately into cold water, 

 every vefiel and thing which fhe is about to 

 make ufe of; in order to prevent the butter 

 t A horizontal or barrel-churn is here to be underftood. 



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