Butter is a solid fat processed from milk, which can be extracted from milk skins, from white oil, or from the oil skins condensed from fresh milk.

Butter is extremely nutritious and is the crown of dairy products. Because five, sixty pounds of yogurt can only be extracted about two pounds of butter, see its precious. For the convenience of consumption, herdsmen often butter in the vessel or cattle and sheep stomach sacs. Cold winter season when animals and people frozen, commonly used cans of drinking butter tea, butter wine to save.

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Historical Records of Butter, to be go back 5,000 or 6,000 years to the ancient times, and can be found in some ancient Indian books and the writings of ancient Greek writers. In that period, however, butter was not used as a food, but as a medicine, a cosmetic and an offering to the gods. First invented by a handful of inhabitants living on the steppes and in the cold north, butter has a stately status as a foodstuff because it is scarce and precious.

Butter was introduced to the table by herders 3,000 years ago. In the times of ancient Rome and Greece, it was a food for nomadic civilizations, like milk, and it was the Gauls, the Germans, who went on to consume it.

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