At first only the Indians skimmed their canoes over its surface, but by the mid-18th century, rafts were in use during spring floods.

When Joseph Priestley was at college at Daventry Academy 1752 – 1755, he records that, during the morning of Wednesday 22 May 1754, he “ went with a large company to drink whey .” This was probably ‘ sack whey ’ or ‘ wine whey .’ A contemporary recipe for ‘ wine whey ’ instructs: “ Put a pint of skimmed milk, and half a pint of white wine into a basin, let it stand a few minutes, then pour over it a pint of boiling water, let it stand a little, and the curd will gather in a lump, and settle to the bottom, then pour your whey into a China bowl, and put in a lump of sugar, a sprig of balm, or a slice of lemon .”

The Outfit controlled casinos in Las Vegas and " skimmed " millions of dollars over the course of several decades.

While prosecutors do not believe he skimmed millions of dollars from the numerous suspicious deals, he is believed to know details of many of them.

While prosecutors do not believe he skimmed millions of dollars from the numerous suspicious deals, he is believed to know details of many of them.

Joe Hanrahan skimmed the bar for the Students late on ; had he scored, UCD would have progressed on away goals – as it was, Everton went on to win the entire competition, and smashed several records in winning their nation's league title.

Now when, so to speak, the cream has been skimmed off, and the items in the successful categories separated out, the sitter can be asked to consider and rate only this concentrated `` cream '', where the sensitive is at her best.

Lappi is a cheese made from partially skimmed cow's milk, very similar to Emmental except that it is pasteurized, and so is a little less flavorful, with smaller holes and a slightly firmer texture.

After the chicken is simmered in the pot or crock-pot, the broth is chilled so the fat rises to the top and can be skimmed off, at once providing schmaltz to set aside for other uses and a less-fat soup, which is brought back to heat before serving.

The case dealt with a federal law that prohibited filled milk ( skimmed milk compounded with any fat or oil other than milk fat, so as to resemble milk or cream ) from being shipped in interstate commerce.

French writer André Brincourt commented that Malraux's books on art have been " skimmed a lot but very little read ", and it is true that critical commentary has often given superficial and distorted accounts of their arguments.

Parsemage is a surrealist and automatic method in the visual arts invented by Ithell Colquhoun in which dust from charcoal or colored chalk is scattered on the surface of water and then skimmed off by passing a stiff paper or cardboard just under the water's surface.

Market mechanisms: Intervention mechanisms have diminished significantly: the Commission intervenes only on: common wheat ; butter and skimmed milk powder.

As such, this nutritional approach included skimmed milk, whole-grain bread, brown rice, and potatoes prepared without fat, on the premise that such foods supported a diet with the same macronutrient composition as the Paleolithic diet.

The clots that had formed on the top were then skimmed off with a long-handled cream-skimmer, known in Devon as a reamer or raimer.

After the print is made, any color residues remaining on the size are carefully skimmed off of the surface, in order to clear it before starting a new pattern.

The most notable storms of the season were Hurricane Carmen, which made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula and in Louisiana, causing at least $ 150 million ( 1974 US dollars ) in damages ; and Hurricane Fifi, which killed 8, 000 people as it skimmed along the northern coast of Honduras.

Comstock's silver mines were criticized for the way that their share prices were manipulated on the San Francisco stock exchanges, and for the way that insiders skimmed the profits to the detriment of the common shareholders.

In May 2001, on the advice of his financiers, Allen filed a lawsuit against Doumanian and her partner Jacqui Safra, claiming their production company had skimmed $ 12 million of profits off of the movies.

The Guernsey and Jersey dairies have a monopoly on milk supplies on their islands, and both distribute a range of full fat, semi-skimmed and skimmed milk from the local pedigree herds.

A thick yellowish layer of fat and coagulated proteins forms on the surface, which is skimmed off.

when it was cool, the fat was skimmed off and bottled.

This phenomenon is easily observable when comparing skimmed milk, which contains little fat, to cream, which contains a much higher concentration of milk fat.

According to her longstanding " World's Greatest Miser " entry in the Guinness Book of World Records, she died of apoplexy when she argued with a maid about the virtues of skimmed milk.

Despite these security features, there are ongoing fraud concerns, particularly when debit cards are duped or skimmed — a compromised automated teller machine or point-of-sale terminal will record the account information contained in the magnetic strip of the card, allowing for duplicate cards to be created at a later time.

But, Mobutu's willingness to let Nzemba control the province through MIBA came at a price-Nzemba may have skimmed as much as $ 1. 5 to $ 2 million a month to send to Mobutu's personal bank accounts.

Not surprisingly the most lavish praise upon the books release came from southern reviewers, an exception being Oscar Wilde who pronounced it a masterpiece ( though he only skimmed many of the military portions ).

Moments later the V-1 skimmed across the landing strip, edging closer and closer to a touchdown -- then in a streamer of dust it landed.

The simple-minded comedy of Dogberry and Verges, also familiar in a day that responds easily to jokes skimmed off the top of writers' heads, evoked laughter.

Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-butterfat layer skimmed from the top of milk before homogenization.

Cream skimmed from milk may be called " sweet cream " to distinguish it from whey cream skimmed from whey, a by-product of cheese-making.

This blend is allowed to slowly reduce while being frequently skimmed.

Pliny the Elder reported that the Gauls and Iberians used the foam skimmed from beer to produce " a lighter kind of bread than other peoples.

The surface is skimmed for the amine + KCl which is then dried and packaged for use as a K rich fertilizer — KCl dissolves readily in water and is available quickly for plant nutrition.

According to the product label, the main ingredients of Nutella are sugar ( 50 %) and vegetable oils ( mostly palm oil ), followed by hazelnut, cocoa solids, and skimmed milk.

The upper portion of water is skimmed off the top for everyday use while the water in the bottom of the tower is held in reserve to fight fire.

This watery liquid is called buttermilk — although the buttermilk most common today is instead a directly fermented skimmed milk.

Raw cream butter is generally only found made at home by consumers who have purchased raw whole milk directly from dairy farmers, skimmed the cream themselves, and made butter with it.

Cream may be skimmed from whey instead of milk, as a byproduct of cheese-making.

There does appear to be some confusion or disagreement about whether it must be clarified to be considered " drawn ", or merely melted with the surface foam skimmed away, or even simply melted.

Dorset Blue Vinney ( frequently spelled " vinny ") is a traditional blue cheese made near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows ' milk.

Dorset butter was highly regarded in London where it fetched a premium price but making butter left the farmers with large quantities of skimmed milk which they turned into a hard, crumbly cheese.

The product left after the cream is removed is called skim, or skimmed, milk. To make a consumable liquid a portion of cream is returned to the skim milk to make low fat milk ( semi-skimmed ) for human consumption.