Red Feather Butter

I have never even seen butter in a can! I often wonder why unrefrigerated butter nowadays seems to spoil so much quicker than I remember it doing in my youth. Is it the same still or some other crap? Since I don't like trying to spread hard butter on soft bread(and the wife won't leave some out to soften), I just apply jam or peanut butter and skip the butter completely. Mayo has become another replacement too on a meat sandwich. Seems margarine is bad for ya along with most other things we buy today. Thank God for peanut butter keeping while soft as not only do I like it, but it works great in mouse traps too and we couldn't afford the mice getting botulism!

Make gee if worried, very shelf stable and more stable when opened as well

The cooks of India have used ghee for ages. You can find it at their specialty grocers. I've used an opened jar over a year old- seemed as good as day 1. It's good for cooking but doesn't taste as good as butter.
I love mayo but these days it's made with the worst oils, canola or cottonseed. I won't touch it.

A lot of the canned butters are from New Zealand or Holland, and are available in the US, but cannot be shipped to Canada. Does anyone know if this is because of the protectionism of the dairy industry?

The lies that have been pushed through by the corporations over the last century simply to boost profit at the expense of our health are truly criminal. I would put nothing past them.

I just looked at a website and this notice was on the canned butter page:
Due to huge tariffs, this butter is NOT available for sale in Canada

Pure protectionism.

Powdered Butter is another option. It does not work well in frying or buttering of your bread. It is used mainly in baking and it does work well here. I have used in it in dishes like buttered chicken and it does the trick. It has a shelf life of 5 to 10 years (they only indicate 5 on the can) and is good for 1 year after you open the can. It is fairly expensive, but can be shipped in from the states (I know Briden has it). Apparently the companies that do make it here in Canada have a limited supply and only sell to their big clients. Their orders are made years in advance.

Ghee is your next best option. And can be made at home. I have tried store bought ghee and prefer the 100% real butter as opposed to the vegetable ghee which much cheaper.

Thanks for the input. I have used powdered butter and keep some in storage, but it only works really well in baking. We have long had ghee in the house for Indian recipes, but once again it is of limited use as it is best used for frying/cooking. The real canned butter apparently stores for 15 years is spreadable and tastes like real butter. If you go to amazon.com you can put the item in your shopping cart, but it will not allow you to ship to a Canadian address. While I have a US shipping address, it would be really nice to find out why the protectionism is necessary. I have even considered contacting the Dairy Farmers group to see why they don't put out a canned product themselves. I would happily buy the Canadian product if they just made it available. There is quite obviously a market for this product and it seems tremendously unfair that they can have a tariff placed on a product that they don't even supply. Does anyone know any dairy farmers? Canned bacon is another product that we could buy years ago, but seems to have been removed from the shelves in the last 20 years. Tulip bacon was great for camping (and yes, I know you can process your own canned bacon) and I wonder if that is a protection of the pork industry. How many items in our stores have gone by the wayside due to tariffs?

I know it will likely kill me in the end but I'd rather dunk everything in bacon grease to eat then consider powdered butter 😯 I keep all the bacon grease we get to add when making moose sausage. Moose is way to dry otherwise. If I make eggs, I use the bacon grease, hash browns and a glob of bacon grease, get the picture? If SHTF, I'd hate to have to opt this out for bear fat (cause there are no farms near) as it isn't even close and it would still likely work better than I can imagine powered butter would taste:lol: 😆

I was therefore thinking about dehydrating water and selling it as such...the package would simply read.... "just add water"! 😎

Of course fresh is best (whether is is bacon grease or something else), but powdered butter is a still a good option for long term storage. It also packs well in mylar bags for pre-made meals for grab and go meals. Everything has its place.

If you're interested in the butter powder these folks have it. Their website is ancient but here's the price list.
http://www.bauly.com/Site/Home_files/NewBaulyPriceList.pdf
Scroll all the way down......

Butter would be another thing I'd have to do without. The list is getting longer. I'm trying to use less or none of these items on my list - less dependence on them. Plus I'm getting used to living without some future hard-to-get or make items. 😉

I am with Knuckle on the bacon fat. I always have a bottle of fat in the fridge, and use it quite a bit for frying. Our neighbor does not use bacon fat for cooking as she makes butter every few days from her own cows milk. She happily saves her bacon fat for me, .....she hates to waste it, so I happily accept it. I would love to get milk from them, but they have 5 kids at home this summer, three of them teenagers, so there is not much milk left at the end of the day.

I have only seen canned butter in a store once. That was in a little Chinese specialty store in Vancouver, about 5 years ago. Never seen it since.

Has anyone found a store or internet source for canned butter in Canada? I know that there are those who tell you to can your own. I have done a lot of canning, but some of the concerns with botulism not being properly killed in the canning process due to the fat content, concern me. While someone has had success with it or someone's grandmother did it, doesn't provide a lot of reassurance. The anti-toxin which is available when life is good, might not be if things got a little rocky. I would find it totally ironic to be well prepared and then have someone on my watch die of botulism from something I lovingly prepared. A lot of the canned butters are from New Zealand or Holland, and are available in the US, but cannot be shipped to Canada. Does anyone know if this is because of the protectionism of the dairy industry? Thanks

there is a store here in london that has canned butter, i'm not sure where your located but you should try the large chinese supermarkes. if you cannot i am sure i can send you some, just send me a pm