| Show milk churned by L lurching of ship of desert was early way of making butter camels may beugly be ugly and IU ill tem but those of us who uhe like pleni ty of butter on our bread owe them a debt oi of gratitude nonetheless asserts martha harmon hannon in the philadelphia record more than 20 centuries ago men used goat and sheep milk butter according to tradition the arabs made the first butter accidentally aided by the aforesaid camels milk was carried in skin bags on journeys across the desert and the jolting of the camels as they lurched along churned the liquid into a buttery mass not the sort of butter we era are accustomed to use well admit for it was fluid enough to be poured slowly from the skins 41 the people of india still make butter by shaking milk in bottles producing supply at a time because the poorer folk there have no means of keeping foods fresh in refrigerators or even in running streams of cold water as do our campers just because americans have a prejudice in favor of butter made from cows milk with margarine or oleomargarine as substitute when the family purse grows lean imply that the rest of the world shares our taste even in this country there Is considerable imports Im porta tion of goats goat s milk butter for persons of greek or italian origin as well as others from the mediterranean regions wit ft olive oil Is another favorite favor for 01 a bread spread where olives r in up in the arctic on OPP oppa nul t 6 ilk the eskimos have a decided pen chant tor for blumb blubber er as the family fat supply where butter Is made in quantity for commercial purposes the separator has superseded the old method of allowing milk to stand to in shallow pans in a cool place until the cream rises and then putting the latter into a hand churn to work and sur stir about in a modern version of the original camel method |
