[Sca-cooks] Honey Butter
Mark S. Harris
MarkSHarris at austin.rr.com
Sun Apr 5 20:20:44 PDT 2009
margaret quoted:
<<< Yup -- it's in Little House in the Big Woods (too) (the Little
House books
are available in limited preview on google books)
"Ma liked everything on her table to be pretty, so in the wintertime she
colored the butter.
After she had put the cream in the tall crockery churn and set it
near the
stove to warm, she washed and scraped a long orange-colored carrot. ...
She put this in a little pan of milk on the stove and when the milk
was hot
she poured milk and carrot into a cloth bag. Then she squeezed the
bright
yellow milk into the churn, where it colored all the cream. Now the
butter
would be yellow." >>>
Interesting. She specifically calls out "orange-colored" carrot. Is
this simply to emphasis that her mother was adding orange color to
the butter, or even at this time, were other colors of carrots
readily available such that she thought she needed to explain that
her mother specifically chose an "orange-colored" one and not say, a
red one, or a white one.
Stefan
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Mark S. Harris
Electronics Engineer, Board and Systems Design
MarkSHarris at austin.rr.com
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