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Here's my question: why didn't the Romans ever (so far as I can tell) use clarified butter? Like olive oil, it is shelf-stable and has a high smoke point; it wa
by jasonhansel 5y ago
Here's my question: why didn't the Romans ever (so far as I can tell) use clarified butter? Like olive oil, it is shelf-stable and has a high smoke point; it was well known in ancient India, so I find it surprising that the idea was never imported.
- bane 5y agoProbably not any reason to. They already had access to other good oils that could be made for far less energy cost than having to raise a cow, milk it, turn the milk to butter, then clarify it.
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- markdown 5y agoMaybe they didn't know how.
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoIt was, and remains, a culture of the olive tree and its oil.