10 Fun And Fascinating Facts About Butter:
1. Butter is generally used as a spread on plain or toasted bread products and a condiment on cooked vegetables, as well as in cooking, such as baking, sauce making, and pan frying.

2. Butter consists of butterfat, milk proteins and water, and in some types, added salt.

3. Butter can also be sold with added flavorings, such as garlic butter.

4. It’s most frequently made from cows’ milk, but it can also be manufactured from the milk of other mammals, including sheep, goats, buffalo and yaks.

5. Butter is a water-in-oil emulsion resulting from an inversion of the cream; in a water-in-oil emulsion, the milk proteins are the emulsifiers.

6. Butter remains a solid when refrigerated, but softens to a spreadable consistency at room temperature, and melts to a thin liquid consistency.

7. The earliest butter would have been from sheep or goat’s milk; cattle are not thought to have been domesticated for another thousand years.

8. An ancient method of butter making, still used today in parts of Africa and Near East, involves a goat skin half filled with milk, and inflated with air before being sealed. The skin is then hung with ropes on a tripod of sticks, and rocked until the movement leads to the formation of butter.

9. The ancient Greeks and Romans seemed to have considered butter a food fit more for the northern barbarians.

10. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder calls butter, “the most delicate of food among barbarous nations,” and goes on to describe its medicinal properties.