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Bog butter is fat, mostly dairy butter, that people buried in peat bogs in wooden kegs or wrapped in bark or animal bladders. Irish finds date from about 1700 BC to about AD 1800. The making steps here are a reconstruction from the finds; what is known is the end state, a waxy fat with much less protein than fresh butter, in which about half the bound fatty acids have been released. Whether microbes take part is not shown, so it is a boundary entry.
Fully documentedFermented milk2 years – 202 years
Recipe
No fixed amounts recordedNo recipe survives. Finds weigh up to 23 kg; the amounts are those of the finds, not a method.
Butter
Most Irish finds are ruminant dairy fat; some Scottish finds are adipose fat[smyth2019][berstan2004]
Wooden keg or container, bark or animal bladder
Containers and wrappings found with the butter[smyth2019]
Total time across the recorded steps: 2 years – 202 years
Start
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What changes:Butter is packed into a wooden keg or wrapped in bark or a bladder
Step 1 of 5
Pack the butter into a container
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Reconstructed from the containers found with bog butters. Output: packed butter.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
Not documented for this step.
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
At a glance
Bog butter is fat, mostly dairy butter, that people buried in peat bogs in wooden kegs or wrapped in bark or animal bladders. Irish finds date from about 1700 BC to about AD 1800. The making steps here are a reconstruction from the finds; what is known is the end state, a waxy fat with much less protein than fresh butter, in which about half the bound fatty acids have been released. Whether microbes take part is not shown, so it is a boundary entry. Made in 5 steps over 2 years – 202 years. The longest step, centuries of slow change, takes 0 min – 200 years (Cronin T 2007). Salt is 0 % (Cronin T 2007).
Bog butter was kept by burial in peat, not by salt or heat; its change is slow chemical breakdown of the fat and protein, and microbial fermentation is not shown.
Weight
Recorded weights up to 23 kg
Fat
94–100% fat, in crystalline form, in 13 Irish samples
Age span
From 1745–1635 BC (Knockdrin) to AD 1510–1800 (Crovehy), by radiocarbon dating
Scottish bog buttersSome are adipose (body) fat rather than dairy fat.
Safety
Ancient bog butters are archaeological finds. Smyth and colleagues say aged or altered butters are by no means inedible, but nothing here shows an ancient find is safe to eat.
Bog butters were first documented in the 17th century. Smyth and colleagues' radiocarbon dates on 32 Irish finds, with earlier ones, show deposition spanning nearly four thousand years, from 1745–1635 BC to AD 1510–1800, and isotopes show most Irish finds are dairy fat. Ritchie (1941) reports two earlier explanations of the change in buried butter. Macadam (1882) proposed an early lactic fermentation that then halted, and Arup (1932) attributed some of the change to bacteria and moulds.
Starter
The sources we found do not say how its fermentation begins.