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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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, F

@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.