Provide bottles which must be perfectly clean, sweet, and dry; draw
the milk from the cow into the bottles, and as they are filled,
immediately cork them well up, and fasten the corks with pack-thread
or wire. Then spread a little straw on the bottom of a boiler, on
which place the bottles with straw between them, until the boiler
contains a sufficient quantity. Fill it up with cold water; heat the
water, and as soon as it begins to boil, draw the fire, and let the
whole gradually cool. When quite cold take out the bottles, and pack
them with straw or saw-dust in hampers, and stow them in the coolest
part of the house. Milk preserved in this manner, although eighteen
months in the bottles, will be as sweet as when first milked from the
cow.