https://kitchen3n.com/tags/kerrygold/Recent content in Kerrygold on Kitchen3NHugoen-usMon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://kitchen3n.com/posts/2013-04-08-on-butter/Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000https://kitchen3n.com/posts/2013-04-08-on-butter/<p><a href="https://kitchen3n.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_0865.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-398" alt="On Butter" src="https://kitchen3n.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/img_0865.jpg" /></a>I didn&rsquo;t grow up eating butter. My eggs were fried in vegetable oil. We spread country crock vegetable spread on our toast. The only time I saw butter were in big blocks in the freezer that my mother eventually cooked down to make <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarified_butter">ghee</a>, which was reserved for bengali mashed potatoes (like yours except with raw onions and green chilis but definitely no milk) and biryani (morog palau in bengali, rice and meat pilaf in english). Why the discrimination against butter? As my sister explained, butter does not do so well in tropical climates. So, by removing the milk solids from it, they are able to preserve it for longer. Which makes sense given what a commodity it is over there.</p>