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ButterButter history

Butter blog E3

A few scientific facts about butter Butter is a water-in-oil emulsion  Two brief examples to clarify the concept of emulsion: 1 – When you put water in your wine, they both mix without hesitation and become a new product without you having to mix them. Even if you let…
16/07/2024
ButterButter history

Butter blog E2

For much of the world, butter is so much part of our life that we can hardly imagine not having it. How is your relationship with butter? Most of us have grown up with butter at home and love to savor it in various ways: spread onto a…
04/06/2024
Wood

Sugar Maple / Acer Saccharum

Maple in Bancroft Ontario The tree The sugar maple is very common in North America where the soil is deep and well drained, particularly in the eastern regions ranging from Ontario to the Maritime provinces and all the way down to Georgia and Kansas. Not only does it…
14/04/2024
ButterButter history

Butter blog E1

My very first butterdish fresh out of production. Not even oiled yet! 10 years ago, I found myself in the company of some really beautiful wood. I could not help myself, and I collected a few cut-offs of cherry, maple, birch and walnut. It is from these first…
07/04/2024
Wood

Yellow birch / Betula alleghaniensis

The tree: Yellow birch Yellow birch is also known as the golden birch due to its bark which is a shiny yellow-bronze which flakes and peels in fine horizontal strips. Note that the famous birch bark used throughout pre-history and history to make canoes comes from the white…
29/03/2024