Please Pass the REAL Butter..

[Teresa]

I quit using Margarine a LONG time ago...
Butter is better for you! Plus it tastes better.
But if I was using it today.. I darn sure wouldn't after reading this!


Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.
When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research
wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do
with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring
and sold it to people to use in place of butter.

How do you like it so far??

They have come out with some clever new flavorings.

DO YOU KNOW...the difference between margarine and butter?
This gets very interesting!

Both have the same amount of calories.

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 Grams.

Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over
eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!

Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.



And now, for Margarine..

Very high in Trans fatty acids.

Triple risk of coronary heart disease.

Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold.

Lowers quality of breast milk.

Decreases immune response.

Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact....  HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC..

This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life.. and
anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing
the molecular structure of the substance).


You can try this yourself:

Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded Area.
Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things:

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value;
nothing will grow on it even those teeny weeny microorganisms will
not  find a home to grow.

Why?  Because it is nearly plastic.

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?

Think about it!

[Teresa]

I have a butter keeper. You can leave butter at room temp for several days and it won't turn bad.
I looked at lots of them..before I decided on the one I have.
I wanted one that used the cold water but didn't have the butter in the water..
I was afraid that my butter would get too warm and melt in the water...
I finally found one that the water is separate from the butter.

Kinda pricey.. but it does have pretty blue flowers.. and my butter deserves it! lol lol

Everyone should have one of these if they use real butter.
I buy my butter in  huge rolls from the Amish.....
so I just cut off pieces and cram them in the keeper.. and then add the cold water in the bottom .. and taaadaaaa!!!
The butter is soft but not melty..and it tastes fresher than when I had it in a glass dish in the cupboard.

[kdfrawg]

Over the years, I have read all of those things about margarine. Although I don't think I have ever seen them all together before, it still doesn't matter, because, compared to butter:

1. Margarine tastes like crap.

2. Things cooked with margarine taste like crap.

So I have never used margarine. You know, what's the point in having a lobster with, as Teresa says, almost-plastic on it? If butter kills me, at least I'll die with a good taste in my mouth.

[Teresa]

Yep.. me too.
Fat in my veins and a smile on my face.. 

[flo]

I only have one thing against today's butter - IT DON'T TASTE LIKE GRANDMA USED TO MAKE.  I may have already told this story, but age has privledges and going to tell it again.  When I was 8 or 9 years old, my maternal grandmother (who we only got to see once or twice a year, but that's another story) asked what I wanted for Christmas.  I told her "cow butter" and that's exactly what I got.  I did share with my sisters and paternal grandmother we lived with, and I still long for good old home churned "cow butter".  Nothing like it.

[kdfrawg]

I wonder if you might talk to Teresa about her Mennonite roll butter, Flo. It might be closer to what you remember. I have purchased butter from the Mennonites here, and although it might not quite have the butterfat content you're looking for, it was a lot closer.

[Wilma]

The flavor of the butter depended on the green grass the cows that produced the milk and cream that the butter was made from ate.  And if the cows happened to get into a green wheat field, the flavor was not so good.  Same if they happened to dine on wild onions or garlic that day. 

[kdfrawg]

Once, many years ago, I was starting a late fall two-week fence riding and repairing circuit on my step-uncle's big ranch in Montana. Knowing I could keep the best cuts for a couple of days in a saddlebag as cold as it was, I shot a deer the second day out. It was when I started to clean him that I realized my mistake. That deer had been living on sage, sage, sage for quite some time. The smell was unpleasant, but the taste was worse. I wound up not eating much of that poor thing.

So I can understand about the wheat butter.

[Diane Amberg]

 Do you have both Mennonite and Amish there? We have both, but our Mennonite population is much more worldly than our house Amish. Those little girls that were killed at their school last year were about an hour from here, in an area I often visit. Their families are house Amish. They're the sweetest, most loving, and forgiving people you would ever want to meet.

[kdfrawg]

We have quite a variety of Mennonite and Amish locally. Just a bit southwest of us there are some large Mennonite communiities. It is an interesting culture.