1892 Drinks of the world

MILK.

— Chemicals

— Skim and Butter Milk — Condensed Milk

Mammals

First Food of all

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— Syllabubs

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its Preservation — Its Early Use

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— When first utiHzed in Medical — Methods of Manufac-

Koumiss

— Koumiss from Cows' Milk

Treatment

ture — Intoxicating Drinks made from Milk. MILJv is the first liquid food taken by man, in common with all mammals, after his birth and this liquid is so happily ordered, as to contain all the elements of food necessary for him, at this period of his existence. The new-born mammal naturally, and directly after its birth, seeks the fountain of its nourishment, and even that most helpless of all created beings, a baby, is soon taught where to seek its food. But we have to consider milk as a beverage, more than as a food, and, as a drink, it is comparatively a failure, as to most people it is indigestible, if taken in any quantity. It may, however, be taken with com- parative impunity as skim milk, i.e. when deprived to a very large extent of its fat, and of a hot day, for a perfect thirst quencher, let us commend slightly acidu- lated butter milk. Milk has very great disadvantages as a beverage : first, that it will not keep good any time, unless chemicalized .by salicylic acid, borax.