My great aunt was still keeping butter like that in the Cambridgeshire fens - just across the water from you - in the early 1950s and all my country relatives had unglazed earthenware butter and milk coolers back then, relying on evaporation to cool the contents

On bog butter - I tasted some very old bog butter found by a friend not far from here and it had a pronounced cheese like flavour, very much like home made butter lost at the back of my overcrowded fridge for some months. Which tells you more about my housekeeping than you probably wanted to know

Kathryn
(North County Dublin Ireland)


On 25 Jul 2016, at 04:28, Norbert Eeltink <[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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