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Butter Manufacture

Department of Dairy and Food Industries, University of Wisconsin, Madison

ABSTRACT

"As we look backward, let us look forward"

—Charles Penrose

"The roads you travel so biskly lead out of dim antiquity, and you study the past chiefly because of its bearing on the living present, and its promise for the future."

— Lieutenant General James G. Harbord

These quotations shall set the pattern of this discussion. It is neither desirable nor practical to discuss periodical history without reference to the past, nor to disregard completely its impact on the future. Butter has had a long and interesting history. It is one of the oldest manufactured dairy products, if not the oldest. Earliest records indicate its usage in religious rites more than 4,000 years ago by Hindus and East Indians. During the eras of Hippocrates (460-357 B.C.), Dioscorides (1st century A.D.), and Sidonius Apollinaris (428–484 A.D.) butter was used for medicinal purposes, as a remedy for sore eyes, or as a dressing for burns and wounds of man and beast.