I'm not sure if this is the right place to post a question like this, but I couldn't find anything like a galley/cooking forum. I was in the airpot in Auckland, New Zealand a few months ago and noticed that one of the airport shops had NZ canned butter. The tins were about like the family-sized tuna cans. I was running late for my flight (believe it or not, after a 16 hour layover - not sure how I managed to be late!) and didn't purchase any. Two questions ... Has anyone ever tried this stuff? Any idea where I could get some (short of flying back to Auckland)?
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I went to Yahoo! New Zealand and searched for "Canned Butter" and found a URL on how to can it. Check it out: http://recipes.alastra.com/preserving/canned-butter03.html A little more searching and maybe you can find where to buy it. Good Luck.
I went to Yahoo! New Zealand and searched for "Canned Butter" and found a URL on how to can it. Check it out: http://recipes.alastra.com/preserving/canned-butter03.html A little more searching and maybe you can find where to buy it. Good Luck.
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Check out some of those Y2K TheWorldIsEnding sites. They have all sorts of stuff like that & I seem to recall canned butter. I was looking for canned bacon - we used it on our trip south & wasn't too bad. LaDonna
Check out some of those Y2K TheWorldIsEnding sites. They have all sorts of stuff like that & I seem to recall canned butter. I was looking for canned bacon - we used it on our trip south & wasn't too bad. LaDonna
Bahamas
New Zealand butter is one of the finer things in life. When I go to the Bahamas it's one of the things I stock up on (Golden Fern I think is the brand). The Bahams get's stuff like that being in the Commonwealth. I've never seen it in the States, maybe there's some import restriction to protect the subsidized dairy lawyers? I'm going to the Bahamas in April. If you want (and I get to a settlement) I'll pick you up a can. E-mail me at prospect@netster.com The other thing is Bahamian Coca Cola, no corn syrup all sugar. Jim "Prospect"
New Zealand butter is one of the finer things in life. When I go to the Bahamas it's one of the things I stock up on (Golden Fern I think is the brand). The Bahams get's stuff like that being in the Commonwealth. I've never seen it in the States, maybe there's some import restriction to protect the subsidized dairy lawyers? I'm going to the Bahamas in April. If you want (and I get to a settlement) I'll pick you up a can. E-mail me at prospect@netster.com The other thing is Bahamian Coca Cola, no corn syrup all sugar. Jim "Prospect"
Feb.10,2001 Dear Gary, We've used canned butter that we bought in the Pacific northwest - Oregon or Washington state, I can't remember which, and it was excellent. It seems to keep indefinitely in the tin. Seems to me we also found it in Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela. Couldn't find it in the countries in between. All of the locally made varieties were very good as well. Once you open the can it has the life span of regular butter, which in a hot country without refridgeration is a few days. I would suggest that you simply phone the local grocery wholesalers in your area and find out if any of them are selling canned butter to the local stores and if so which ones. In the alternative you can make your own salted butter: (1) clean out a canning jar with boiling water and wipe dry . The usual recommendation is to boil the jars and lids for 20 minutes. The problem is that hot jars melt butter and the milk solids seperate out. (2) Let cool by turning them upside down on a clean paper towel. This limits the entry of air born bacteria. (3) When the jar has cooled fill it with room temperature butter to about 1/4 inch from the top and fill the remaining space with salt and then put the lids on tight. Works great, requires no refridgeration, preserves the buttter, and doesn't ruin the taste. Just scrape the salt off when your ready to use it. I hope this helps. Fair winds, Brian Pickton of BeneteauOwners.net Aboard The Legend, Rodney Bay, St. Lucia
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