Butter

[*crikey*mate*]

How did you store it "in the old days" to stop it melting in summer. That is before we had fridges.

Just thinking as the weather is getting cooler here now I can start to leave the butter unrefrigerated, but no chance in summer, left some on the bench to soften one morning Summer just gone and it had clarified in under 3 hours!

liquefied and separated!

and hiow come fridge has a d but refrigerator doesn't?

[lurker172602]

It makes a very good wine cupboard now 🙂

[lurker172602]

Well, blow me down. I just went to have a smell and the middle one doesn't have mesh at all. It is completely steel lined. The mesh is on the bottom cupboards

[*crikey*mate*]

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@imastawka wrote:

Prior to the above 'refrigeration' method was the Coolgardie Safe.

Same set-up but the sides were usually hessian or mesh.  We used to stand

the feet in bowls of water to keep  the ants out,    lol

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so when did this model get superseeded by the one in your first pictures which seem to have insulated doors a bit like ours today?

[cherry*135]

My parents had electricity and a fridge before I was born.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

my new fridge doesn't have a butter keeper. It has something similar but ther is no temperature control on it, so whatever is kept in it is just as cold as anywhere else in the fridge. We were a bit disappointed in that as we are butter eaters, not marg

[imastawka]

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@lurker172602 wrote:
Well, blow me down. I just went to have a smell and the middle one doesn't have mesh at all. It is completely steel lined. The mesh is on the bottom cupboards

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  My understanding of the metal lined cupboard was somehow it kept the bread fresh.

  Don't understand the science of it,  but it worked in our house

[*crikey*mate*]

so did mine, even grandma at the farm had a little fridge

twas she where I learned to put the butter in the fridge in summer and in the cupboard in winter.

well at least I remember her always doing that, and always some comment about the seasons changing and time passing, "another year rushing by" kindas thing

and when she moved to town, she used to get milk delivered in little plastic bags and she would pour them into these white and blue striped jugs. Was pretty different for her as she had moved in off a dairy farm, so she was quite horrified at the thought of her milk in the plastic bags.

[cherry*135]

Where did the ice man get the ice from? Can you make ice without electricity?


Mum used to put some butter on a saucer in the cupboard to so it was spreadable. We lived in a fairly cold climate.

I used to buy the soft butter made in NZ, avail here as well. Now use non dairy spread.

[joz*garage]

twas she where I learned to put the butter in the fridge in summer and in the cupboard in winter.

really? there i was thinking you got the idea from me back when butter was a topic some time ago

[imastawka]

The first pics were around the 1920's - 1940's

The hessian ones were late 1800's onwards

 My country cousins still use canvas ' bottles'.  They fill them with water

and then hang them outside in the shade.  Coolest, best water ever!

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