Butter

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?

 

 


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My dad used to do that! right up till he couldn't. First thing he'd do with cream that had passed itsd used by date too. But he'd try and get the cream from the top of the milk bought down from the farm and whenever he got that, he'd make his own butter, Just last year he made a batch


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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.

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

That's what I did last summer! Got up in the morning, put some butter on the bench to soften ready for the days baking, and before the sun was even over the fenceline, when I went back into the kitchen, it had just melted LOL

 

I don't know what a wooden butter pat is?

 

*goes to google*


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I have some! kind of like a rectangular wooden spoon with one grooved side. We used to have butter stamps and also a butter block press.

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We made our own butter and bread when I was a teenager.  I'm sure the butter churn and associated paraphernalia are still up on The Farm

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I don't know what a wooden butter pat is?

 

Did you find any? The wood has ridges on the inside.

 

Wooden butter pats. Model in the Museum of Nottingham Life showing how grocers used them to pat butter into the required size and shape for sale.

 

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I did , but thank you. and I had seen them, just didn't know they were called that. We just called them paddles, but pats make sense as they patted the butter into shape so to speak.

 

I was just thinking I'm used to a pat of butter beuing those 7g portion controlled bits that come in foil from some takeaway kind of stores.so was having difficulty putting that into the context of what was being spoken about.


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can i answer a few of the posts from an american POV,without insulting anyone? like the one about how butter was stored in the past? i don't want come off as a smart aleck.

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I'd like the American POV.  Just to see if it was different here

So, be our guest...

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thank you!

to the first question i noticed, about how butter was stored. my momma's family was from kansas,my da's family from massachusetts,but both used the same method.

the root cellar. it kept your potatoes from sprouting/greening,especially when stored with apples close by,which also kept you apples from withering.

there was alcoves in them,one would be for your potatoes and apples,one would be for you other root veggies,carrots,turnips,parsnips,sweet potatoes and such,since they don't emit the same gasses.

then you had one to hang cured meat in,another for canned goods,and WAY at the back,that was the larder. you kept butter,lard,cheeses,eggs,milk and fresh meat there,as it was the coolest and farthest underground,with a relatively stable temperature year round.

as for the cupboard with the middle cabinet made of metal? my grammas called it a pie safe,they kept pies,cake,bread and cookies in there. it kept the humidity level proper so nothing went stale,or got soggy. the outer cupboards stayed dry to store your flour,rice,cornmeal and dried good like corn,peas,beans,etc. 

my family still uses these things,and i enjoy seeing/using them on the rare occasion that i visit. my basement is an old coalcellar, we use it only as a tornado shelter. 

sorry,TMI,right?

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I've always liked the idea of root cellars.  They make sense.

But we don't really get much, if any,  snow in Australia.  Only in

the Alps - high country.  And we have waaaay too many burrowing

animals,  they would love a root cellar

 

We don't even build basements here

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