Composition of Cheese. 
41 
the inoUovv and rich taste of cheese is not entirely, nor indeed 
chiefly, due to the fatty matters which it contains. 
Good Cheshire and Cheddar, on an averajje, contain about 
the same quantity of buttcn- ; but of course inferior (cheeses de- 
fective in this respect are to be found in both localities. The 
analysis No. 6 shows the composition of such an inferior Cheddar. 
Double and Single Gloucester Cueese. 
Gloucester, especially double Gloucester, is generally sold as 
a whole-milk cheese. It is, however, seldom made of the whole- 
milk. In most dairies moie or less of the cream of the milk is 
made into butter ; but unless the whole evcninfj^'s milk is 
skimmed and added to the whole new morninjj's milk — in 
which case the cheese made is "half-coward" — the produce, 
whether sing^le or double, is said to be whole-milk cheese. The 
distinction of single and double Gloucester is one merely of size 
and thickness, and has nothing to do with the quality. 
The following Table embodies the results of some analyses of 
double and single Gloucester cheese: — 
Douhle Ghucestcr. 
No. 
i- 
No. 
No. 3. 
No. 
4. 
No. 5. 
No. 
6. 
32- 
•14 
32- 
80 
38- 
S3 
38 
14 
40-88 
33 
41 
Butter 
31)- 
17 
27- 
22 
20- 
77 
24 
16 
22-81 
32 
69 
31- 
75 
25 
26 
56 
75 
Milk - sugar, lactic j 
acid, and extrac-[ 
22 
I" 
70 
|: 
18 
6 
40 
1 31-88 
I- 
23 
tive matters . . . . ) 
tMiueral matters (ash) 
4- 
42 
5" 
22 
4- 
97 
4 
74 
4-43 
3 
92 
loo- 
OO 
100- 
00 
100- 
00 
100 
00 
100-00 
100 
00 
* Containing nitrogen 
s' 
12 
4- 
20 
4 
25 
4 
44 
t Containing common"! 
1- 
41 
1- 
27 
2 • 
04 
1 
28 
1-45 
1 
01 
Single Gloucester. 
No. 1. 
No. 2. 
No. 3. 
No. 4. No. 5. 
No. 6. 
No. 7. 
Water 
Butter 
Milk - sugar, lactic j 
acid, and extrac-^ 
tive matters ..) 
tMineral matters (ash) 
* Containing nitrogen 
•j- Containing common'l 
salt j 
28-10 
3.-!-(,8 
30-31 
3- 72 
4- 19 
31-96 
31 -37 
29-37 
2-85 
4-45 
37-20 
27-30 
24 -.50 
7-44 
3-56 
31-81 
29-26 
26-12 ' 
8-63 
4-18 
32-42 
27-42 
|34-46 
5-70 
37-91 
22-70 
j31-25 
j 3-30 
4-84 
36-50 
28-75 
25-75 
4-68 
4-32 
100-00 
4-85 
1-12 
100-00 
4-70 
1 ■ 35 
100-00 
3- 92 
-85 
100-00 
4-18 
1-50 
100-00 
1-46 
100-00 
5-00 
1-23 
100-00 
4-12 
1-38 
