Saga of the Sanpitch Vol 24

Curds, Knaphost, and Smor

like me it was really good. Another thing that had fascinated me at the creamery were the long metal arms that churned the cream into butter. The sweet cream butter was another thing I liked. Instead of selling milk to the creamery, my maternal grandfather separated the cream from the milk and soXd the cream. Every morning he would separate it, and then on certain days of the week he would set the five-gallon can of cream out by the gate post where it would be picked My unc-Les earned money for school supplies and spend- They had both Holstein and Jersey cows. The Holsteins gave the most milk, but the Jerseys' milk was more rich, both. Buckets of this whole milk were poured into a huge metal bowl at the top of the separator. It was fun to along with other parts of the separator, had to be carefully washed each day, which was a tedious task which no one really liked to do. Before separating the milk my grandfather always brought one bucket of milk into the house and strained it into large flat pans. From these pans of milk my push the long handle up and down and up and down until 112