Salting Butter to Preserve it

[Kenneth Eames]

Barneyboy, I am pleased that you found this. For many years the generation of electricity in Ireland was accomplished by the use of Peat. Most of this peat was taken from the Irish Midlands and this resulted in many finds of Bog Butter. The lack of air and the cool moist conditions in the Bog were the reason for the Bog Butter preservation. If we can replicate those conditions then our butter can last for centuries. Much of the Bog Butter was buried in Ireland in the Middle Ages and before. Or, so Ive read in books. Kenneth Eames.