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Memorandum of Cheese made in 1756. 

 May 



25 No I. To this I had a large Pan of Milk more than the Cheese 

 tray would hold. I had used Rennet that was left 

 since last summer, it was very long of thickening 

 & I was obliged to put a great deal in. I made it 

 according to a receipt I got from Sister Willey.* In 

 scalding the Curd after it was chopped there was a good 

 deal of yellow oyl raised on top of the Whey, as it 

 was on the Curd & and when I drained it the second 

 time it had lost much in Bulk. I can not approve of 

 this method, it lost a good deal of rich whey. I ex- 

 pect it will be strong of the Rennet and not be good. 

 (It was good except a little too much taste of the 

 Rennet) 



27 2. To this I had the same quantity of milk as to the former, 



I put one Spoonfilles of the Rennet in it, it thickened 

 in a very short time. I made it after my Mother's old 

 manner, it was a tender good curd and lost very little 

 rich Whey. When it came out of the press it weighed 

 25 pounds. The first weighed 20 pounds, the third 

 day after it came out of the press. 



Later, in the following November she weighed her cheeses and 

 notes their reduced bulk, and there are also notes as to how they 

 eventually tasted. At the end of the sheets she made a list of 

 her milkings and the sales of her butter, showing that in the year 

 she sold 348 pounds of butter that netted her £12.1 t,. 2,- She 

 even did not omit the names of the purchasers of her butter, nor 

 the amounts sold each time. 



It is impossible not to conjecture as to whether any of these 

 cheeses were those extolled by Walter Rutherfurd ! And it is 

 much to be regretted that the drawings " coloured with great 

 beauty" have all disappeared. They surely cannot have been 

 the figures done in " ink outlines washed in with neutral ink " of 

 the "pretty large volume" so graphically described by Mr. 

 Britten. 



Jane Golden | married Dr. William Farquhar, a Scotchman and 

 a widower ; their marriage Hcense was dated March 12th, 1759. 

 She died March loth, 1766; her only child in the same year 



* Alice, third daughter of Governor Golden, born September 27, 1725, married 

 Golonel William Willetf, she being his second wife. She died in 1762. 

 ■f Purple, Golden Family in America, 20. 



