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In fact, there are "butter bells" sold by the occasional potter in the US (I know the very craft-oriented town where I used to live had them for sale everywhere, and I think my sister bought one) that are to be used exactly this way; they are basically just dishes with handles on the bottom. I'm not sure whether it was a thing there in particular because it was a formerly very poor area where refrigeration would have been hard to come by in the past, or whether it was just Berea potters discovering that there was a market for them, but they were ubiquitous.

Julie

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On Jul 25, 2016, at 5:56 AM, Salima Ikram <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

there are butter dishes that do this (not in a ditch), but if you put the butter on a plate with an upside down bowl on it and immerse it in water and keep it in the larder in the UK, it works. Some people I know still use this technique!

Salima Ikram
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American University in Cairo
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On 25 Jul 2016, at 05:28, Norbert Eeltink <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:

When I was young I heard an old man tell that his mother used to store butter in a bowl placed upside down under water in a ditch. No idea if it was true or if he was just pulling our legs.

Norbert
(Netherlands)

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