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MEMORANDUM OF CHEESE MADE IN 1756. 
May 
25 Nox. To this I had a large Pan of Milk more than the Cheese 
tray would hold. I had used Rennet that was left 
& I was obliged to put a great deal in. I made it 
according to a receipt I got from Sister Willett.* 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 
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 
hotes 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 £12.13.3. She 
€ven 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 Colden + married Dr, William Farquhar, a Scotchman and 
a Widower ; their marriage license was dated March 12th, 1759. 
She died March toth, 1 766; her only child in the same year 
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* Alice, third daughter of Governor Colden, born September 27, 1725, married 
Colonel William Willett, she being his second wife. She died in 1762. 
T Purple, Colden Family in America, 20. 
