Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1885 — The Origin of Batter-Making. [ARTICLE]

The Origin of Batter-Making.

There is no way of ascertaining when or how this familiar process of buttermaking was first used. Butter is mentioned in the Old Testament, but modern Biblical scholars think that the word thus translated denoted a liquid preparation of cream. The oldest reference to true batter is probably that made by Herodotus, in his account of the Scythians. In the writings of Dioscorides, a native of Cilicia, Aria Minor, who lived in the first century, we have a description of the process of making batter from sheep’s milk by agitation. Frequent mention is made in these old writings of the use of butter as an ointment whence we may conclude that the process of making it was not so well understood as to give a very palatable article. The Greeks obtained tbeir knowledge of bnttermaking from Asia Minor, and the Romans learned it through the Greeks. But butter-making, ss we are acquainted with the process, was an acquisition of the inhabitants of northern Europe, and by them has been transmitted to ns. Even now butter is little valuedm the Southern countries of Europe, edive oil being mueh preferred there.— Atlanta Constitution. i Brooklyn, belles have taken to bowling as a pastime;and they have demonstrated that it is possible to Bowl without beer, a feat which men Have heretofore considered impossible. .