Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1913 — Packing Butter. [ARTICLE]

Packing Butter.

For packing butter for keeping the following plan Is a very reliable one: To every twenty pounds of butter take three pounds of salt, one pound of loaf sugar, one-fourth pound of pulverized saltpeter, and mix thoroughly. Put a layer of butter, about eight jnches thick, then sprinkle on a light covering of the mixture, then a layer of butter, then the mixture, alternating In this way>untll your cask is full. Pack the butter tightly In air-tight ca;ks. Butter put up in this way will last a year, retaining its sweetness.