What is the impression of those who ate with "Bog · butter" of a thousand years ago butter from excavated from the swamp?

It is reported that a mass of about 10 kg of butter estimated to have been made about 2000 years ago was excavated from the Miss State of Ireland, but for the first time an ancient butter was discovered in Ireland Rather, in 2009, a mass of about 35 kg butter made 3000 years ago in the state of Kildare, in about 20 years the mass of about 45 kg of butter, which is believed to have been made about 5000 years ago in Oferary Province, was excavated It is. Both lumps of butter are buried in a marsh so "Bog butter(Marsh butter) ", but,Smithsonian MuseumThe Smithsonian Academic Society that manages Bog and Butter.

A Brief History of Bog Butter | Smart News | Smithsonian
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-brief-history-of-bog-butter-180959384/

Bog butter is a thing that was discovered in modern times when human beings thousands of years ago bury in a marsh for preservation. The Irish people seemed to have found a bog-butter from the garden of their home, as an ordinary person digging up moss had a culture using moss as a fuel.

I investigated the found bog butterResearch by Bristol UniversitySome of the butter also contained things that were not dairy products, but many were made from animal milk, some know that tallow was mixed as a preservative. According to studies published at the Irish Archeology Journal, many of Bog and Butter are often put in pot pots, wooden containers, wrapped in animals' skin or bark, etc. Both have the characteristic of emitting an irritating cheese smell.


Up to now, 274 bogs and butters have been excavated,Iron AgeIt was discovered that it was buried in a marsh from the Middle Ages. It is thought that the early Celts who produced butter were buried in a swamp to simply preserve or to protect them from thieves. Low temperature, low oxygen and high acidity swamp fulfill the role of "natural refrigerator", so it remains until today.


Butter at that time was very valuable, not only to eat as it was, it was handy as stockpile for tax payment and drought · famine (famine). In addition, it seems that the act of filling the butter in the ground may have been a gift to God and spirit. There is also speculation that researchers at Bristol University were a kind of food processing to improve the taste as chemical composition was changed by filling butter in mud.

This time Bog Butter, 2000 years ago found in the province of Meath, says that it smells like a strong buttery enough to fill the room, but the researcher said, "In theory you can eat but not eat It is better. " In the past there are also strong people who actually ate bog butter, and in 2014Kevin Thornton, a famous Irish chef, tasted Bog Butter 4000 years agodoing. Mr. Thornton explained, "Although the taste peculiar to the fermented product has ceased to exist, it feels intense taste with tongue and nose", and it seemed that I could feel the "taste of history" without getting sick is. Andy Harpin of the Irish National Museum commented, "It is not prudent to sample the delicacy of the iron age in the body."


In addition, Nordic Food Lab publishes recipes that reproduce how to make bog butter with photos, and you can see the process from the following page.

Bog butter: a gastronomic perspective - Nordic Food Lab
http://nordicfoodlab.org/blog/2013/10/bog-butter-a-gastronomic-perspective

According to the creator who ate the finished product, "You can taste umami and aversion at the same time," smell of animals "," putrid smell "," moss "," irritating smell "," bad smell "," salami "etc. I am talking. Because it is a recipe that adds tallow, wraps it in trees, or buries it in a marsh, it seems to get a flavor that I do not know well whether it is tasty or not.