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Brewer's: Soil the Milk before Using It

Yorkshire for “Sile the milk, etc.” —i.e. strain it, or skim it. A sile is a sieve or strainer. “Take a handeful of sauge, and stampe it, and temper it with hate ale, and sythene syle it…

Milk, river, United States and Canada

(Encyclopedia) Milk, river, 729 mi (1,173 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., NW Mont. It flows N into Alberta, Canada, then in long curves eastward, S into Montana again, and generally SE to the…

lactic acid

(Encyclopedia) lactic acid, CH3CHOHCO2H, a colorless liquid organic acid. It is miscible with water or ethanol. Lactic acid is a fermentation product of lactose (milk sugar); it is present in sour…

butter

(Encyclopedia) butter, dairy product obtained by churning the fat from milk until it solidifies. In most areas the milk of cows is the basis, but elsewhere that of goats, sheep, and mares has been…

vegetarianism

(Encyclopedia) vegetarianism, theory and practice of eating only fruits and vegetables, thus excluding animal flesh, fish, or fowl and often butter, eggs, and milk. In a strict vegetarian, or vegan,…

ice cream

(Encyclopedia) ice cream, sweet frozen dessert, made from milk fat and solids, sugar, flavoring, a stabilizer (usually gelatin), and sometimes eggs, fruits, or nuts. The mix is churned at freezing…

white snakeroot

(Encyclopedia) white snakeroot, North American woods perennial (Eupatorium urticifolium) of the family Asteraceae (aster family), having a flat-topped cluster of small white flowers. It is of the…

yogurt

(Encyclopedia) yogurt: see fermented milk.

Holstein-Friesian cattle

(Encyclopedia) Holstein-Friesian cattleHolstein-Friesian cattlehōlˈstēn-frēˈzhən, –stīn– [key], breed of dairy cattle originated in N Holland and Friesland. Commonly called Holsteins in the United…