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Justin
03-22-2019, 14:04
So, evidently in ancient times, burying food in a peat bog was a viable method of food preservation. To that end, people had a habit of burying butter in peat bogs in order to dig it up for later consumption. Ocassionally these containers were lost and get dug up by farmers or archeologists.

Well, a couple of guys at a university decided to try their hand at actually making a few batches of the stuff, and the results were interesting.

http://nordicfoodlab.org/blog/2013/10/bog-butter-a-gastronomic-perspective
DFBrews
03-22-2019, 15:50
Awesome
DFBrews
03-22-2019, 15:51
Awesome

As a maker of many cured,fermented, and preserved things that’s so cool.
Rucker61
03-22-2019, 15:53
I thought "buried butter in a bog" was covered on page 47 of the Kama Sutra?
Irving
03-22-2019, 16:06
That's pretty interesting.
TEAMRICO
03-22-2019, 16:07
My NEW signature move.......the Triple B!
Ramsker
03-22-2019, 16:46
Picturing the guy from YouTube who eats the old MREs being involved with this. "Let's get this out on a tray . . . NICE!"
Irving
03-22-2019, 16:58
The MeatEater crew has been doing a lot of stuff about dry aging meat lately if anyone is interested in that kind of stuff as well.


Picturing the guy from YouTube who eats the old MREs being involved with this. "Let's get this out on a tray . . . NICE!"

I'm under the impression that there still exists canned food from an arctic expedition over 100 years ago and someone cracked on open and ate the contents.
Not_A_Llama
03-22-2019, 17:14
Wait til you guys find out about the Marienlyst Strandhotel's chef... https://www.instagram.com/p/BvAjAg1gOzh/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

As I recall, it achieves beef aging without the metallic overtones.
wyome
03-22-2019, 23:02
I remember an area in Wyoming that the ground would stay frozen for quite some time and people would store foodstuffs in ther bog, or use it as a source of ice... somewhere in the Powell- cody area I think
Irving
03-23-2019, 10:49
They would do that with Bison. Kill a bunch, slaughter them all and bury the meat in a pit and fill the top with snow.