creameryn.
/ˈkriːməri/ 1.
a. An establishment (often worked on the co-operative or joint-stock principle) in which butter (and cheese) is manufactured on a large scale from milk supplied by a number of producers; a butter-factory. Also the work of such an establishment, the making of butter, etc. (First used in U.S.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of dairy produce > [noun] > dairy
dairyc1290
dey-house1342
dairy-house1530
milkhouse1554
milkness1691
milk room1698
butter dairy1784
cheesery1836
creamery1872
1872 1st Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1871–2 164 Mr. Bliss spoke of the creameries in New York.
1879 (title) Associated Dairying: Creameries and Creamery, Butter, Cheese and Cheese-making..12mo. pp. 74. Lancaster (Pa.).
1881 Chicago Times 16 Apr. The creamery is fast superseding the dairy in all thickly settled portions of the northwest.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 4/3 The introduction of creameries, or establishments for churning the cream of the small farmers..in Ireland.
1971 Deerfield (Wis.) Independent 28 Jan. 1 Farmers in those days brought their milk to the creamery by horse and wagon.
b. The produce of this industry, esp. butter. U.S.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun]
whiteOE
white meata1425
milkmeat1440
milkness1493
whitage1537
whitsull1602
dairy-ware1727
lactage1753
dairy produce1842
milk product1867
creamerya1877
dairy1948
milchigs1949
a1877 N.Y. Bulletin In the general features of the butter market there is no change. The fine creameries are considered well sold at 23 cts.;..Western creamery, 22 cts.
1881 Chicago Times 14 May The current makes of creamery [butter] are already beginning to show a good deal of grass flavor and color.
1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 12/4 Butter..desirable grades of both solid-packed creamery and prints.
2. A name for a shop where milk, cream, butter, etc. are sold, and light refreshments supplied. Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858 has Crèmerie, a breakfast or refreshment house in French towns.
Compounds
creamery business n.
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1882 Chicago Advance 6 Apr. 213 A deal of knowledge about this creamery business.
creamery butter n. butter made at a creamery, as distinguished from that made at a private dairy.
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > types of butter
May-butter?a1425
clarified butter1562
pot-butter1616
manteca1622
grass butter1648
green butter1654
drawn butter1661
cacao butter1662
ghee1665
rowen1673
ruskin1679
orange butter1696
whey-buttera1722
rowen butter1725
fairy butter1747
grease1788
Cambridge butter1830
stubble-butter1856
black jack1858
maître d'hôtel butter1861
Normandy butter1868
creamery butter1881
pound butter1888
renovated butter1888
samn1888
process butter1898
pool butter1940
garlic butter1942
yak butter1962
Normandy1973
cannabutter1994
1881 Bradstreet's 26 Nov. 349/2 Creamery butter sold at 30 @ 32c.
1894 Field 9 June 846/2 The average price realised for Irish creamery butter was 88s. f.o.r. at this creamery.
1901 Daily News 7 Jan. 8/7 Two standards, one for the creamery butter and one for the more heavily salted butter known as Irish.
1935 Economist 7 Sept. 458/1 The Imperial Economic Committee estimates that British production of creamery butter amounted to about 63,300 cwts. in the calendar year 1930.
creamery print n. (print n. 6b.)
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the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > butter > [noun] > ball or pat
print1566
butterball1787
butter pat1790
creamery print1909
1909 Public Ledger (Philadelphia) 24 June 12/4 Pennsylvania and other nearby creamery prints.
creamery system n.
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1886 Standard 24 May 2/1 The efforts of Canon Bagot to extend the creamery system in Ireland..have resulted in the formation of the Creameries Association of Ireland. Eight Creamery Companies have been affiliated.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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