Objectnummer
58/67
Beschrijving
This bowl is glazed on the inside only with a brown glaze. It was used to separate cream for making butter by allowing it to rise on the milk. The donor acquired it in Cambridgeshire but knew nothing of its origins.
Fysieke kenmerken
1 setting pan: earthenware; large; circular
<DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>2.<B> Cream Setting pan</B> <P>The first stage in making butter the traditional way was to pour the new milk into quite shallow settling dishes and leave it overnight to allow the cream to rise to the top. This one came from Cambridgeshire and has a glazed surface which could be washed and kept very clean after use. Shortly before the end of the nineteenth century, a much more efficient means of carrying out this process had been devised using centrifugal force in a machine called a separator. Dairies often had special cool areas, often on the north side of the farm house, where the settling pans could be laid out in a clean, dust and insect-free environment because any tainting of the cream at this stage would inevitably reduce the quality of the butter. In the mid-nineteenth century it was very fashionable for big country houses in England to have a highly decorative and ornate dairy and settling room on the home farm. <BR> 58/67</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV><DIV STYLE="text-align:Justify;font-family:Georgia;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;font-size:16;color:#000000;"><P><SPAN><SPAN>2.<B> Cream Setting pan</B> <P>The first stage in making butter the traditional way was to pour the new milk into quite shallow settling dishes and leave it overnight to allow the cream to rise to the top. This one came from Cambridgeshire and has a glazed surface which could be washed and kept very clean after use. Shortly before the end of the nineteenth century, a much more efficient means of carrying out this process had been devised using centrifugal force in a machine called a separator. <BR> 58/67</SPAN></SPAN></P></DIV>
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