The Fourth Part of the Prosperity of Germany

with Spiritus Salis impregnated with new salt, so that it acquires the hardness of ordinary butter and is seasoned with salt, and thus is far better than the ordinary sort when put into casks and kept for use. For although this purification, carried out by fire, has removed all its cheese (from which it derives its hardness), the Spiritus Salis nevertheless confers upon it a far different and better quality, and makes it surpass all others in goodness and consistency.

These things I have wished to draw out from my kitchen and present: namely, a broth of good and exquisite flavor, cheese, and butter. If these do not satisfy anyone's palate, I would wish that he refrain from using them. I have not done these things without a cause of some importance, and I know well that they will undoubtedly be subject to the perverse judgments of scoffers and mockers who will perhaps say: "What trifles of women and what games of boys does Glauber produce, exposing himself to feminine ridicule and offering himself to be laughed at by the female sex," who will say that by teaching how to make butter and cheese, I have thrust my sickle into a woman's harvest. Let them say whatever they wish; geese are accustomed to babbling nothing but their goose-hissing. I had set nothing in my mind other than that this treatise should be nothing but a mere work of women and a game of boys, which would reveal more good to the ignorant than the writings of all those authors imbued with perverse erudition, who exceed the grasp of any person through their excessive subtlety.

What I teach and reveal under this preparation of cheeses and culinary works, not just anyone will easily