Which is healthier for Butter or Margerine?

Freeze it and then transfer it to the fridge, it stays solid there You could always add herbs and black pepper before you do it.

 

In chemistry terms, 'plastic' is a property, not a specific material. Materials that are plastic will stay whatever shape you put them, as opposed to materials that are 'elastic' that will try to go back to their original shape.

But yes, I know what you mean, and I've heard it too. To make 'plastic', you take some oil and stick it in a big tube. Then you heat one end of the tube and freeze the other, and a magical thing happens. The oil divides itself into layers of different material. Then by extracting just the layers you want and then pumping various gases through it, a chemical reaction happens and it turns into plastic. Or margarine.

 

Is it?

At school, we had a project where we had to "donate" the top of our milk (anyone else remember those days? Miniature bottles of full fat milk for break time, always luke warm and quite repulsively so?). It was decanted into a larger vessel and each day this vessel would be handed around the class, table by table, with each person on the table giving the "top of the milk" vessel 50 shakes before passing it on.

After some time had passed (and, do tell me which cow shakes their bootie that many times to make butter ) it had, miraculously, been "churned" into butter! (well, after it had been drained and beaten)

But, it wasn't yellow (Enter: commercial colouring!)

I was given the enormous responsibility (coz I was a good girl, innit!) to go to the nearest shop and buy some bread so we could "taste" our hand made creation. Tasty?

Er ... perhaps ... but, the shop bought stuff has a measure of salt (or equivalent) added to make it 'tasty'. (Enter: "slightly salted" on wrapper, but missing on our classroom product)

In more recent times, I have made it using a KitchenAid (wrists aren't up to 50 shakes per minute these days) and it still comes out bland and pale ... unless .....

Yup, butter: totally "natural", "tasty" (with the addition of salt) and yellow (with the addition of something.

 

Butter is far more healthier than Margarine an artificial fat made up for the war effort in 1940

Our older folks did not get obese with butter as they WORKED, they walked or cycled to work, and WORKED hard labour, not sitting at an office desk, even office staff, walked about and actually WORKED not type on a computer keyboard and press send, they had to physically go and get the paper and deliver it by walking to the gestetner, then walk home thus burning calories

The service people in our forces are fed 6k calories a day, only they burn up 6k calories a day! the problem comes when they get a cushy number back home where they intake 6k calories a day but only burn 4k calories. Thus the reason we see obese sailors at the Cenotaph

Eat the best of what you want, but remember you need to burn it all off

Stay healthy
Jack McH

 

I personally go on taste, if I am having a sandwich or crumpet scone etc, where you taste what`s spread on it ,I only use butter, in cooking I use liquid Flora, or olive oil.

 

Did you know that you Humans couldn't digest milk or milk products until about 10,000 years ago?

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/food/2009/04/lactose-tolerance-and-human-evolution/

 

Nothing to say about butter but only talking the other day how out parent or g/parents looked more healthy.We got some old photos out and their skin looks lovely as well as their hair.You see old films on tv and people do not look drained or obese.
No doubt the vegetables they ate and food did not contain some much crud to preserve them.

 

All my family eat proper butter and personally I detest any types of Margarine even if used for making cakes etc...can taste the stuff even in a very rich fruit cake. I'm not very keen on those spreadable "butters" either.Touch wood we are all very healthy and if anything under not overweight BUT we live in the countryside,are always on the go doing something active thus have very little "couch potato" time. I'm over 60 but have all my own teeth with very few fillings. I was raised in a house where butter, cheese and gold top (full cream milk for those lucky enough to be too young to remember !) were daily fodder. My dentist is confident my rich in Calcium diet is why my teeth are so good. None of my parents or grandparents had to have false teeth and they all lived well into their 80's and a couple into their 90's. I'd stick with butter and just try to be as active as you can.

 

Butter, And i hope that it has not been mest about with (trust) ie: beef with added horse etc

With all the cover ups lately you never know what is happing

If GCHQ reads this post, we need things to be done properly not for greed

 

The one made form milk