[Sca-cooks] Butter- how to's and sources

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

I STR reading a mention of milkmaids beating the cream with their hands,
in flat wide bowls. Might be in _Food and Drink in Britain_. I'll have to
check.

Margaret, lamenting the absence of a useful food reference library here at
work

On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, bill mayfield wrote:

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>     Having read most of the "Butter" messages posted recently
>      they gave me pause to think.......it seems butter is period
>     the "flavoring" of butter is at best argueabley period.
>      My queston is this I guess,did they make butter in period
>       using the "butter churn"? are the Ol' fashioned paddle
>     churns you see on occasion eqivulant to a period churn?
>      do we have any viable sources for churns,I have shopped
>      on line a little and am sometimes flatly perplexed by the
>     prices seen........I mean I am not a cheapskate but c'mon
>      I dont plan on making butter to pay my bills or nuffin'.
>     and Yes Stefan.......I am on the way to the florigelum  ;~)
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> Æthelwülf
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