Breakfast, dinner and supper. In five parts by White James Edson

Author:White, James Edson. [from old catalog] & Wanless, M. L., Mrs., [from old catalog] joint author
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Home economics
Publisher: Kansas City, Mo., & Battle Creek, Mich., J. E. White
Published: 1884-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Butter.

The adulteration of butter, or rather the manufacture of spurious butter has of late years become an extensive industry. Oleomargerine or butter-ine is the name by which this spurious article is known to the trade. To consumers it is sold as genuine. It is made from fat, and colored to resemble genuine butter. One factory in New York produces 50,000 pounds of this bogus article daily, and there are other extensive factories in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Louisville, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, New Haven, Providence and Boston.

To the taste and natural sight the difference cannot be seen, and it is only by the use of the microscope that the fraud can be detected. In the genuine the fat particles are globular in form, while in the imitation will be seen spikes of various shapes and differently connected. Generally the adulteration of genuine butter can be detected by gently melting, when a separation will take place.

The course of real safety is to procure the supply from reliable parties.

Sugar.

The cheaper grades of sugar are often adulterated with sand, plaster of Paris, and other substances. To detect this form of adulteration, dissolve the sugar in water, and the spurious ingredients will appear as a sediment.

Cheap brown sugars are unfit for use, as they

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