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Butter ......my earliest memories of butter go back to early childhood. We always ate butter, and it was kept in our walk in larder in the butter dish, which from memory was a brown coloured oval shaped dish with a lid. For special family occasions the butter would be put into the 'posh glass dish' and enjoyed with home made scones or similar.
Visiting family and friends it was always butter. Of course as most of us know this changed and butter lost out to those spreadable margarine type spreads which most of us thought were healthy and so much easier to spread than real butter.
We know differently now and butter is back BIG TIME, which is good. When out in the supermarkets we have quite a good choice, .......we can pick and choose.
My favourite is Kerrygold Irish Butter. The taste and colour to me is perfect perhaps it's something in the grass ?
I read this article by Darina Allen .....she wrote "I'm very fortunate to live in a country renowned for its wonderful butter. In Ireland we grow grass like nowhere else in the world, because our climate is ideal for it – all that lovely soft rain. The Cork Butter Market, which opened in the 1770s and continued to trade for 150 years, was the biggest in the world and exported Irish butter as far as the Caribbean. The butter was packed in hardwood casks called firkins and brought by horsedrawn cart from Kerry and West Cork which are still known today as butter roads."
Friends who live in New Zealand say their butter tastes great because their cows are also grass fed.
As with everything all good things tend to be priced higher, but there are cheaper alternatives.
Have you a favourite butter .....did your family use it .......have you ever made your own. ?
All the best Jan
Visiting family and friends it was always butter. Of course as most of us know this changed and butter lost out to those spreadable margarine type spreads which most of us thought were healthy and so much easier to spread than real butter.
We know differently now and butter is back BIG TIME, which is good. When out in the supermarkets we have quite a good choice, .......we can pick and choose.
My favourite is Kerrygold Irish Butter. The taste and colour to me is perfect perhaps it's something in the grass ?
I read this article by Darina Allen .....she wrote "I'm very fortunate to live in a country renowned for its wonderful butter. In Ireland we grow grass like nowhere else in the world, because our climate is ideal for it – all that lovely soft rain. The Cork Butter Market, which opened in the 1770s and continued to trade for 150 years, was the biggest in the world and exported Irish butter as far as the Caribbean. The butter was packed in hardwood casks called firkins and brought by horsedrawn cart from Kerry and West Cork which are still known today as butter roads."
Friends who live in New Zealand say their butter tastes great because their cows are also grass fed.
As with everything all good things tend to be priced higher, but there are cheaper alternatives.
Have you a favourite butter .....did your family use it .......have you ever made your own. ?
All the best Jan
