Artifact: Butter
Materials: Butter
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Collection: Thomas Bjørkan
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Ledger Entry: Butter
Department: Grocery
Customer: John Gist
Ledger Page: 35
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Product Description
Butter was a common ingredient for cakes, pies, and other sweets. Butter was also used in cooking poultry, meat, fish, and seafood.
Citation: Katharine E. Harbury, Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004); Andrew F. Smith, ed., The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
Historical Price: 6 pence per lb; Modern USD: $5.6
Product Variations
The databases record six purchases of butter. Most sales were made by weight ranging from twenty-one to thirty pounds. One cask of butter is also listed. Though not all of the purchases have a listed price, all of the ones that do are for six pence.
