[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter

[S CLEMENGER]

No.  Well, maybe "Farmer Boy," too, but I'm really pretty sure I read about 
the grated carrots in "Little House in the Big Woods."
--Maire


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Honey Butter


>
> On Sat, 4 Apr 2009, Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 4/1/2009 11:10:49 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > wyldrose at tds.net writes:
> >
> > <<I would assume that there were additives to butter through out the 
> > ages
> > because my mom would talk about how they added coloring to the butter so 
> > it
> > wasn't white during WWII and how her granmother would add a little 
> > carrot
> > juice to the butter for 'company' in the 1880's. >>
> >
> > I seem to remember in the "Little House on the Prairie" books, Laura
> > mentioning that they added carrot juice or something to the butter in 
> > the winter to
> > make it yellow, because winter butter was white - apparently the color 
> > changes
> > if the cows don't eat fresh grass or something.  Don't have the books 
> > here to
> > check, unfortunately.
> >
> >
> > Brangwayna Morgan
>
> Farmer Boy. And it was the butter that Almanzo's mother was going to sell,
> in barrels. Hence "butter & egg money".
>
> Margaret FitzWilliam
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