Specimen cooling-dish trademarks; Vernon's Patent Noiseless Ware
IN 1633
Description Specimen cooling-dish trademarks; Vernon's Patent Noiseless Ware
Date 1972
Catalogue Number IN 1633
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 742274
Scope and Content Cooling dish, Dairy, Guisachan, Highland Dating from 1860, this huge courtyard steading was designed by A & W Reid & Mackenzie for Lord Tweedmouth who bought Guisachan estate from William Fraser of Culbokie in 1854. Guisachan House is now a ruin, but the farm, which includes a picturesque dairy, and the model village of Tomich, are still standing. This shows a cooling dish from the dairy showing its trademark 'Vernon Patent Noiseless Ware'. There are traces of a cork rim on the underside of the dish which may account for its being billed as noiseless. During the cooling process the surface gradually turned yellow as the cream separated from the rest of the milk. It was then skimmed off and transferred to vases for churning into butter. Before the invention of refrigerators butter had to be made freshly every day and was sent up to the house in pats stamped with the family crest and the day of the week. This practice continued in some places up to World War II. Cheese was often also produced in a dairy of this kind. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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