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?

[*crikey*mate*]

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@am*3 wrote:
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.

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Grandma had a butter dish with a lid

I remember butter from New Zealand - it came in a tin can

[*crikey*mate*]

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@joz*garage wrote:

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

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oops sorry - I either forgot about yopur butter thread or never saw it.

and as my Grandma died in 1993, pretty sure I didn't know you then, so I reckon it came from her.

[cherry*135]

We had posh butter dishes for visitors, Everyday use butter was on a saucer.

All our butter came with a paper wrapper much the same as it does now.

We did have a milk separator and wooden butter pats on the farm. Maybe Mum used to make butter before my time.

[lionrose.7]

We used to make butter every time I over whipped the cream.

Add a bit of salt and presto Butter

[joz*garage]

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@*crikey*mate* wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

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

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oops sorry - I either forgot about yopur butter thread or never saw it.

and as my Grandma died in 1993, pretty sure I didn't know you then, so I reckon it came from her.

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there you go, something i thought up myself many years ago, it's obviously best to store butter in the fridge in the summer

in the cooler months i keep it in a sealed plastic container in a cubboard

thats if i havent been able to source my preferable danish spreadable brand

[azureline**]

My mum made her own butter and I did that for a while myself. I have a cream seperator and a single/double stand electric milking machine in my shed, still.

[lionrose.7]

I know when I was dragged out camping we used to get cold water from a stream and rest the butter and milk in it.

[cherry*135]

"there you go, something i thought up myself many years ago"

So did many others (keep some butter in the cupboard in cooler weather) . In hot weather can just put some out before you need it and it will soften.

My sister kept the wooden butter pats. I always liked the look of them.

[joz*garage]

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@am*3 wrote:
"there you go, something i thought up myself many years ago"

So did many others (keep some butter in the cupboard in cooler weather) . In hot weather can just put some out before you need it and it will soften.

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yep, & when i buy a block of the unsalted stuff (oh excuse me crikey, mentioning block.. i remember talking about butter on the soapbox board you couldn't have read it there, sorry lol) i cut it in half, place one in the fridge the other half outside in the cooler months

& if it starts to smell funny.. ive used most of it up anyhow, throw the rest in the bin, then bring the other half out from the fridge

[lind9650]

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@imastawka wrote:

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!

similar to this

 

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Stawka, even today this is an essential water bottle for people driving to the outback. I have seen many 4WD or trucks on the roads with those kind of bottles attached at the front of the vehicle.

We had a couple of those when we lived in Central Australia.

Erica