scalder

Updated: May 7, 2025

Fill up the kettle, too, there's a dear. I'm a reckless scalder. Why, the stove lid's under that kettle. I wondered why it wasn't hotter." "Wait till I find the hooker," cried Minty, diving down under the stove in search of the iron. "Minty Foster, how many times have I told you never to take that hooker off the string?" said her mother reprovingly.

Clara Louise Burnham - The Opened Shutters

Butter-making is an interesting sight at the splendidly equipped steam-factories, and we all know that Danish butter is renowned for its excellence. When the milk is weighed and tested it runs into a large receiver, thence to the separator; from there the cream flows into the scalder, and pours over the ice frame in a rich cool stream into a wooden vat.

M. Pearson Thomson - Denmark