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Paper, regarding cheese making by [William Jackson]

Reference number: CLP/3i/22

Date: 1669

Description

Details about making cheese in Cheshire [England] - pressing the cheese, salting, lay cheeses singly for the first year, details about the dangers in the cheese chamber. Includes seven figures relating to cheese-making with explanations - cheese tub, cheese ladder which lies over the tub to support the cheese vat, and the six-foot cheese press.

Subject: Industry / Food

Reference number
CLP/3i/22
Earliest possible date
1669
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Paper, regarding cheese making by [William Jackson], 1669, CLP/3i/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_3i_22/paper-regarding-cheese-making-by-william-jackson, accessed on 11 July 2025

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