A Flashback for we elders

A FLASHBACK FOR WE ELDERS AND RARE TRIVIA FOR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN. 

Ice-cream has always delighted a youngster. My dad referred to the practice as “taking your tongue for a sleighride.” One of my mischievous delights was to sneak up on the neighbor’s porch on a frosty morning on the way to school, and break the “creamsicle” sticking out of the milk bottle delivered earlier.

When milk was left at the door in glass bottles and began to freeze the cream in the milk having separated, pushed the paper lid off add extended out of the bottle. The heavy cream was highly prized for use in Grandmom’s favorite desserts.

Dairies earned as much for heavy cream as they did for the milk and needed to find a way to separate it short of letting it freeze out on the porch! Hence the invention, by Gustav e Laval, 135 years ago, of a machine that could whip the fluid around so fast that the heaviest particles—the cream, would spin into one receptacle while the lighter product spilled into another. 

Being too heavy and cumbersome to lug around the country to demonstrate to the dairymen, De Laval created a perfect, working, 

DE LAVAL CREAM SEPARATOR—SALESMAN’S SAMPLE. This one is complete with buckets and reservoir. Price; $49

Location: Milbridge, ME, USA