| Show milk churned by lurching of ship of desert was early way of making butter camels may be ugly and ill tem but those of us who like plenty of butter on our bread owe them a debt of gratitude nonetheless asserts martha harmon 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 w was as 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 are accustomed to use well admit for it was fluid enough to be poured slowly from the skins the people of india still make butter by shaking milk in bottles producing a days 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 importation of goats milk butter for persons of greek or italian origin as well as others from the mediterranean regions olive oil is another favorite for a bread spread in lands where olives grow many vegetarians insist on nut butters up in the arctic the eskimos have a decided penchant for blubber as the family fat supply where butter is made in quantity for commercial purposes the S separator epa has superseded the old method of allowing milk to stand in shallow pans in a cool place until the cream rises and then putting the latter into a hand churn chum to work and stir about in a modern version of the original camel method |
