Buttermaking Dbq

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Buttermaking is one of the oldest forms of preserving the fat component of milk. Its manufacture dates back to some of the earliest historical records, and reference has been made to the use of butter in sacrificial worship, for medicinal and cosmetic purposes, and as a human food long before the Christian era. Documents indicate that, at least in the Old World, the taming and domestication of animals constituted the earliest beginnings of human civilization and culture. There is good reason to believe, therefore, that the milking of animals and the origin of buttermaking predate the beginning of organized and permanent recording of human

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