Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1908 — Simple Butter Test. [ARTICLE]

Simple Butter Test.

There is a simple test by which any housekeeper can bA reasonably certain whether she has real butter, the renovated article or oleomargarine. Put a sample of the doubtnll butter about the size of a small chestnut into an ordinary tablespoon. Hold this over a flame—gas, kerosene or alcohol—stirring the butter with of wood or a match as It melts. Bring to as brisk a boil as possible and after this has begun stir thoroughly two or three times at intervals, especially. just before the boiling ceases. Oleomargarine and renovated butter boil noisily, with a good deal of spluttering. They produce no foam or very little. Genuine butter usually bolls With less noise and produces an abundance of foam. It is the difference in regard to the foam which is most marked.