Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1884 — To Detect Oleomargarine. [ARTICLE]

To Detect Oleomargarine.

A waiter employed in a New York restaurant says: “Any housekeeper ean prove the honesty of her grocer or his butter by melting it Pure butter melted produces a pure, limpid, golden oil, and it retains the butter flavor. Melt oleomargarine and the oil smells like tallow and looks like tallow, and a scum rises to the surface. Butterine is a mixture of dairy butter and fats. Melt that and the butter oil will rise to the top. Pour this off and you will find the fats at the bottom, whitish in color, and giving off a disagreeable smell.” If the pressure of the times could bo properly applied and used a 3 a propelling power it could move all the machinery in fifty-three States. All other knowledge is hurtful to One who has not the soienoe of honesty and good-nature. — Montaigne .