Jack Conway, an Irish turf cutter, working in the Emlagh bog in County Meath, Ireland, made an amazing discovery, 25 pounds of bog butter more than 2,000 years old. Bog butter is just that: butter made from cow’s milk that’s been buried in a bog, though, after thousands of years, it often has the consistency of cheese. But still smells like butter. Such finds are not that unusual. A 3,000-year-old, three-foot-wide barrel stuffed with 77 pounds of bog butter was found in 2009 and a 5,000-year-old wooden “keg” containing 100 pounds of the butter in 2013. Burying the butter in a bog was a method to preserve the delicacy.
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