The Chemistry Of Dairy Products A Chemical Analysis Of Milk Cream And Butter

This antique book contains a comprehensive treatise on dairy production, with particular focus on the chemical aspects of the practice. Including information on methods and equipment used in the chemical analysis of milk, cream, and butter, this is a text that will be of much value to the commercial dairy farmer and one not to miss for collectors of antique farming literature. Many antique books such as this are becoming increasingly costly and rare, and it is with this in mind that we are proudly republishing this text here complete with a new introduction on dairy farming.

Milk has been an important food for man since the domestication of cattle and the adoption of a pastoralist agriculture. It is also the most versatile of the animal-derived food commodities and is a component of the diet in many physical forms. In addition to milk itself, a rural technology evolved which permitted the manufacture of cheese, fer mented milks, cream and butter. At a later date, successive advances in technology were exploited in the manufacture of ice cream, concen trated and dried milks and, at a later date, of ultra-heat-treated dairy products, new dairy desserts and new functional products. At the same time, however, dairy products have been increasingly perceived as unhealthy foods and a number of high quality dairy substitutes, or analogues, have been developed which have made significant inroads into the total dairy food market. Paradoxically, perhaps, the technology which, on the one hand, presents a threat to the dairy industry through making possible high quality substitutes offers, on the other hand, an opportunity to exploit new uses for milk and its components and to develop entirely new dairy products. Further, the development of products such as low fat dairy spreads has tended to blur the distinction between the dairy industry and its imitators and further broadened the range of knowledge required of dairy scientists and technologists.