Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — Method of Condensing Milk. [ARTICLE]

Method of Condensing Milk.

A very simple machine has been Invented In England for reducing milk to a powder. It is made of two cylinders, Into which a jet of steam is turned that heats them to a temperature of 230 degrees F. As these cylinders are slowly turned In opposite directions, the milk is poured Into them, where the liquid portion is at once reduced to a vapor by the Intense heat while the solids adhere to the. cylinders in a thin layer that Is scraped off by two knives Into a sieve as these cylinders revolve. The solid portion Is at once thoroughly dried and reduced to a powder. If this new Invention should prove to have no objectionable feature, the expense of condensing milk will be very much reduced. The machinery now used for this purpose is very expensive, and the process of condensing Is not generally understood, excepting by a very few experts who have been put onto the secrets of the trade by the manufacturers of milk condensing machinery.—Exchange.