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February 3, 1844
Sunbury American And Shamokin Journal
Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
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A housewife describes difficulty churning sour cream into butter and successfully resolves it by adding soda dissolved in warm water, as recommended in the Indiana Farmer.
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Churning Butter.
Every good housewife knows that at times for some peculiar causes, (most generally extra sourness or bitterness of the cream.) much difficulty is experienced in making the cream into butter. A lady writer in the Indiana Farmer recommends the following course to such cases.
We have, says the Western Farmer—for years used soda or salaratus for the purpose, and found them usually successful:
"I wish to inform my sister butter-makers of the means I used, which so successfully removed the difficulty. I churned, perhaps three hours, to no purpose, and then tried to think of something that I had read in the Indiana Farmer, or some other periodical, I could not remember precisely, but I recollected the reason stated was the cream being too sour. I then thought of soda, (pearlash, I presume, would do as well,) and dissolved a large tea-spoonfull in a pint of warm water, and as I poured it in, churning at the same time, it changed in a moment, and gradually formed into a beautiful solid lump of sweet butter."
Every good housewife knows that at times for some peculiar causes, (most generally extra sourness or bitterness of the cream.) much difficulty is experienced in making the cream into butter. A lady writer in the Indiana Farmer recommends the following course to such cases.
We have, says the Western Farmer—for years used soda or salaratus for the purpose, and found them usually successful:
"I wish to inform my sister butter-makers of the means I used, which so successfully removed the difficulty. I churned, perhaps three hours, to no purpose, and then tried to think of something that I had read in the Indiana Farmer, or some other periodical, I could not remember precisely, but I recollected the reason stated was the cream being too sour. I then thought of soda, (pearlash, I presume, would do as well,) and dissolved a large tea-spoonfull in a pint of warm water, and as I poured it in, churning at the same time, it changed in a moment, and gradually formed into a beautiful solid lump of sweet butter."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Personal Triumph
What themes does it cover?
Triumph
Recovery
What keywords are associated?
Butter Churning
Sour Cream
Soda Remedy
Household Tip
Story Details
Story Details
A housewife struggles for hours to churn sour cream into butter but succeeds instantly by adding a teaspoon of soda dissolved in warm water, producing sweet butter.