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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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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, F
@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.