Bog butter was produced by interring butter or other fats within a peat bog after encasement within a wooden container, although augmentation of the latter with a deerskin bladder or layers of plant fibres was not unusual.
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Modern experiments in creating bog butter yield a product that seems to be an acquired taste, with " flavor notes which were described primarily as animal or gamey, moss, funky, pungent, and salami.
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Until recently, Ireland's oldest recorded find of bog butter was a carved hanging bowl dating back to the 6th or 7th century AD . On 28 April 2011, there were press reports of a find of approximately of bog butter in Tullamore, County Offaly, thought to date back about five millennia.
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Until recently, Ireland's oldest recorded find of bog butter was a carved hanging bowl dating back to the 6th or 7th century AD . On 28 April 2011, there were press reports of a find of approximately of bog butter in Tullamore, County Offaly, thought to date back about five millennia.
