Making 400 year old buttered beere

As a person who used to drink buttered coffee and tea, I know why people drank that back in the day, it's actually good calories if you work hard and need them. Maybe not during modern day with abundance that we have but still to this day, Sherpas will drink yak buttered tea to go up and down a mountain all day for energy.

Peasants actually ate a lot of calories because they worked hard like Sherpas but it was often things like beer, porridge, bread but a small percentage of eggs, milk, cheese.

So it's interesting to me. I don't have my buttered tea anymore but it was good, with ghee.

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Grateful4you · M

Don't even tempt me. I just got lectured this morning for my apparent "addiction" and over-consumption of butter. Apparently I have a problem, a behavior I have NO intention of curing. I don't dare try that county fare novelty of fried butter on a stick, that would likely push me over the edge.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@Grateful4you Haha. That's funny.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

'Small beer', which was drunk by most of the population, was typically low alcohol. It was valued for its nutritional content and as a way of purifying water, rather than any intoxicating qualities. So the idea of Harry Potter and chums enjoying buttered beer is no so alarming 🙂

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@SunshineGirl Agreed, they said the same also, that beer was kind of a way of being hydrated. I can imagine the conditions back then weren't so good, a lot of people probably died from untreated liquids.

GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M

Cool!

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@GeistInTheMachine I actually want to try it. I mean it may turn out gross but could turn out good. I used to put ghee in my coffee or tea depending and it was delicious. Some people either love it or hate it but apparently people been putting butter in drinks for extra calories/energy for at least 400 years it seems.

MethDozer · M

That's all true about calories but on the flip scarcity also meant those peoples were willing to eat any calories they could get their hands on. Go back and offer them a regular beer and a afew eggs ontop of a pound of bacon instead and I am fully convinced they would pour their buttered beer and tea on the ground.

SatanBurger · 36-40, FVIP

@MethDozer I don't know because in my opinion I loved ghee coffee when I drank it. It was really weird because it almost tasted like a savory coffee? Weird. But I also suspect you're right, if they were truly really hungry they'd do real food over that.

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