When food was first canned in the early 1800s, manufacturers spent a long time working out how to preserve the contents while giving little thought to how one might get to the goods inside. Early cans were thick and heavy, sometimes weighing more than their contents. Made from wrought iron and lined with tin, the […]
The Berry Central Creamery was built in 1895 and within a few years became the first factory in NSW to adopt pasteurisation technology. Farmers from across the region delivered their milk to the Creamery, then described as ‘the largest and most complete butter factory in the colony.’ This advertisement was printed and distributed in England. […]
The first butter factory in Australia was established at Kiama, on the NSW South Coast, in the early 1880s. Until then the trade of dairy products occurred directly between the farmer and buyer. Butter was made in small quantities using centuries-old techniques to separate the cream from cow’s milk and churn it into butter. It […]
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