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- This butter mold was patented on March 18, 1890
to Perley Kimball of Bellows Falls, Vermont.
The patent was assigned to Vermont Farm Machine Company
who sold this butter mold.
The butter mold was created to make butter more preservable
to get it from more rural areas to more urban areas.
- We made our own butter.
We didn't know people who had any.
And (chuckling) we couldn't go buy any butter, you know,
unless some, another person was making butter,
will maybe sell you some butter,
but I don't remember ever being anything like that.
You just made your own.
- It makes wonderful baked goods.
It really adds something to most things that you eat.
And I can't imagine a world without butter (laughs).
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- There was a dairy farm close to us
and they made their own butter.
They also had a creamery, where they made their ice cream
and they made butter,
and I remember when they used to put the butter
into the butter molds and they would have
special stamps to go on it.
A lot of the dairies used to sell to the different stores
would stamp their butter with a different stamp
for their dairy.
And so when you bought the butter,
they had their stamp on it.
So that was pretty fascinating.
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- For vegetables, especially corn on the cob,
all your breads, all your breakfast foods
like waffles and such, that type of thing.
And when I bake my cakes and pies and things like that,
you have to have butter.
- We bought a lot of butter.
But also, I remember that my grandmother made butter,
and so we had some home-made butter and bought butter.
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Thing that my grandma used to tell me about butter,
and it was about a butter churn.
She used to have a little room that she said,
she said what's big at the bottom and little at the top?
Something in the middle goes flippity-flop.
And that was the churn,
whenever she was churning to make butter.
- I was probably about 12 maybe.
I had, my mama's working, and I had two friends come over
and we found a cake mix.
So we made a cake.
And we used my mother's last stick of butter
in the refrigerator.
And I was so proud of this cake,
and when my mom got home from work
and my friends were still there,
and I said, look it, look it.
And she said, she got so mad cause she needed
that last stick of butter for something else.
Now it's funny, but then I was really embarrassed.
You know, but who knew?
It was a good cake!
- My favorite thing about butter is everything.
I just love butter on everything.
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