Editing Muslin (section)

=== Use in food production ===
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Muslin can be used as a [[filter (chemistry)|filter]]:
* In a funnel when [[decant]]ing fine wine or [[Port (wine)|port]] to prevent sediment from entering the decanter
* To separate liquid from mush (for example, to make apple juice: wash, chop, boil, mash, then filter by pouring the mush into a muslin bag suspended over a jug)
* To retain a liquidy solid (for example, in home cheese-making, when the milk has curdled to a gel, pour into a muslin bag and squash between two saucers (upside down under a brick) to squeeze out the liquid whey from the cheese curd)
* Muslin is a filter in traditional [[Kava culture#Fiji|Fijian kava]] production.

Muslin is the material for the traditional [[pudding cloth|cloth]] wrapped around a [[Christmas pudding]]. It is the fabric wrapped around the items in [[barmbrack]], a fruitcake traditionally eaten at Halloween in Ireland. [[beekeeping|Beekeepers]] use muslin to filter melted [[beeswax]] to clean it of particles and debris.