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Bog butter from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, 1857. Bog butter is an ancient waxy substance found buried in peat bogs, particularly in Ireland and Scotland. Likely an old method of making and preserving butter, some tested lumps of bog butter were made of dairy, while others were made of ...
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In the summer of 1747, a peat digger unearthed the body of a woman through roughly six feet of peat moss. The man quickly fled after his shovel struck a shoe with partial remains of a human foot still inside. The following October, Dr. George Stovin, after hearing of the discovery set out with his team to finish the excavation. Dr.
"One serving of peanut butter is 220 calories, 1 tablespoon of grape jelly is about 50 calories and, depending on the size of the bread, it can add another 230 calories," says Moody. " This makes ...
Butter is delicious, but excess consumption of it has come to be associated with potential health risks, such as high-cholesterol. Perhaps hoping to turn the food's image around, the Danish Dairy ...
Eriophorum angustifolium, commonly known as common cottongrass or common cottonsedge, is a species of flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae.Native to North America, North Asia, and Europe, it grows on peat or acidic soils, in open wetland, heath or moorland.
The Gunnister Man is the remains of a late 17th- or early 18th-century man found by two Shetlanders in a peat bog not far from the junction of the A970 road in Gunnister, Shetland, Scotland. [1] The bog body was found on 12 May 1951 as the men were digging peat for fuel. [2] A stone placed by the Northmavine History Group now marks the find ...
People were probably dead set on making the root vegetables where they ended up edible. Eating root vegetables as a staple might be the most engrained human tradition. Image credits: BonerSoupAndSalad