BS: 'Best' Butter ??

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:07 AM

MBSLynne, I concur with the Jersey cow thing...see my post of 14th Feb at 02.04pm. It sure is the yellowest and best tasting of any butter I ever ate.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: JennyO
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 07:23 AM

Yes Lynne, that's what I use too. The one I get is called Dairy Soft and is a mixture of butter and canola oil. It's much easier to spread than just butter, but still has the butter taste. I keep it in the butter conditioner in the fridge - cooler than a hot summer day but warmer than the main part of the fridge.

I used to get one of the good margarines, but apart from the fact that the taste wasn't as good, once I started to read some things about the downside of the margarine-making process, I went back to the soft butter because I think it is better for me, as well as tasting better.

Some margarines are actually quite expensive now, with all sorts of new gimmicks. I stay away from them.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: MBSLynne
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 09:28 AM

So is the milk Georgiansilver! When I take milk home, if I leave it sitting in the fridge for 24 hours the cream I pour off the top is more like double cream than 'top of the milk'.

I don't buy it JennyO, I make it myself. That way it has nothing in except butter and vegetable oil. No hydrogenated oils etc. I put 8oz vegetable oil (olive oil is best but I don't like the taste it gives so I use rapeseed oil, which I believe is the same as canola) in the blender, cut up and soften 8oz butter and whizz the two together until smooth. Then I pour it into a dish and put it in the fridge.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: Rowan
Date: 19 Feb 07 - 04:57 PM

Before Britain entered the Common Market, almost the entire output of the Korumburra Butter Factory (South Gippsland, Victoria, Oz) was shipped to Britain. The only part of the production released locally was to the Royal Melbourne Show (where it regularly won the prize for Best Butter), the dairy farmer who supplied the milk to the factory and some local shops. It might not have competed with the Irish for freshness by the time it got to Britain but it was pretty good on the farm.

One reason it was so good was that all the cows were Jerseys, with 30% butterfat content. I do recall using the separator (and cleaning the thing afterwards, with its eleventy million bits) and winding the handle on the butter churn but I mostly remember the cows. In the early 50s we started getting Dutch immigrants, many of whom became sharefarmers on south Gippsland dairy farms. Not long afterwards we also started seeing gigantic black and white cows in the paddocks; Friesians!

There used to be a joke among Jersey-farmers, about the salesman who was pushing the use of Friesian semen in AI programs.

"Get some Friesians!" the salesman woud say. "Those Jerseys are useless. Put a two bob bit in the bottom of a 20 gallon milk bucket and you can milk a Friesian all day and barely cover the coin. Milk a Friesian and you'll fill the bucket at every milking!"

"Yair. And you can still see the two bob bit!" was the reply.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 02:48 AM

Yes, I have to separate the milk AND clean the separator!

Jerseys are the best and I must repeat that story to my boss. Not only is the milk beautifully yellow and creamy, but the cows themselves are sweet natured and soooo pretty. Not to mention the fact that, as a rather vertically challenged person, jerseys are much more on my level. I spent years as an inseminator before settling to raising a family, and I got so bored with black and white cows. It was great to go to the occasional farms with jerseys, Ayrshires or shorthorns.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 03:18 AM

"I spent years as an inseminator before settling to raising a family"


OOOOooooo, Far Too Much Information....

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 12:35 PM

Well Robin, I left the job when I got pregnant, so you can imagine the comments THAT caused!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 07:48 PM

Stop it! NOW!

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: MBSLynne
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:13 AM

Lol!!

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: GUEST,ib48
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:21 AM

what butter did brando use in last tango in paris?

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:28 AM

what butter did brando use in last tango in paris?

I believe it was I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, not butter. I don't believe Marlon could believe that the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter wasn't butter, either. I believe he said "I can't believe this I Can't Believe It's Not Butter is not butter" in the film.

Any road, our billy goat is the best butter I know.

...I'll get me coat.

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: GUEST,ib48
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 11:54 AM

scrump,maybe it was i cant believe its not batter,   could you get my coat while yer there please

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: Bugsy
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 06:52 PM

P'haps it was "I can't believe it's not 'I can't believe it's not butter'"

Can you get my coat too, while you're at it?


Cheers


Bugsy

Subject: RE: BS: 'Best' Butter ??
From: tarheel
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 09:09 PM

i always heard that Margerine is only one molecule away from being PLASTIC!!!
now margerine doesn't taste as well,anymore!
anyway, we don't use Margerine anymore
just across the cove here is a small farm where they still churn milk from thier two cows ,that are milked by hand and they make and mold Home-made butter....
yunny,just like my grandma ust to make,too!
Tar...