Comments on: Bruun Butter, Finally!!! :)

By: Bryan Benida

Bryan Benida — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:42:22 +0000

Hello Sir, what camera do you use in food blogging? I only use digicam.. Nice blog po!

By: tonceq

tonceq — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 14:59:24 +0000

Whoa! if there was any culinary museums in the Philippines this should be there! :)

By: akosistella

akosistella — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:37:41 +0000

Yay! Thanks Mimi! Thanks MM. Mystery solved! ;p

By: junb

junb — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 07:18:08 +0000

@ Peach, Go for it….making homemade butter is another dimension. 10-15 mins of shaking in a glass jar produce an amazing butter that I’ve tasted so far. Add a bit of salt to further enhance the flavor. Use it on your pasta or steak but I find it the best on a freshly baked hot pandesal.

By: atbnorge

atbnorge — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:36:41 +0000

This is as far as I can translate some parts of what’s in the link. It also doesn’t say that A/S L.E. Bruun stopped the manufacture of the canned butter. It states there that in 1930, the company reorganized and got a new name A/S L.E. Bruun Export…In 1931, the company also acquired (ham factory) Skinkekogeriet Royal A/S thus widening the range of products for export to meat preserves (kødkonserves). The company was taken over by Dania Products A/S og Scandia Packing Company A/S in 1932…The company and its group of companies chiefly stood for the manufacture and export of Danish agricultural products in can…I am guessing that maybe they concentrated more on the meat preserves, hmm?

By: Betchay

Betchay — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:10:16 +0000

This is interesting!Was the can used as container for worms(lures) bysomeone who was fishing?and of all places…..the arctic?It’s like one of those movies featuring the mysteries hidden in the Arctic! :)

By: Marketman

Marketman — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 21:50:41 +0000

Footloose, thank you for that! Why didn’t I think to simply have it translated? :) At any rate, it sounds like the can is pretty old… and it still isn’t clear when Bruun butter disappeared from local grocery shelves…

By: Footloose

Footloose — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:54:10 +0000

Here is my Google translation of the caption for the artifact that explains its weathered appearance:

The picture below was received by mail from Ole W. Sejersen:
I took the attached photo of canned butter from A / S L. E. Bruun three years ago. It sat outside a fishing hut hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle in eastern Greenland. The hut (a travel lodge) has not been used for over 60 years and is now completely useless. The can has been there since 19?? but is incredibly well preserved considering that it was outside.

By: millet

millet — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:48:26 +0000

finally! and yes, footloose, maxam spreadable cheese, and canned chinese ham flakes that were incredibly salty. all my dad’s favorites.

By: Footloose

Footloose — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:11:08 +0000

Ah so… it was not merely a fignewton of our imagination after all. Btw, that fits Quiapo’s recollection of it and just around the corner from the Philippine Cold Store that he mentioned (that also carried the incredible Maxam spreadable cheese), in Calle Villalobos, there was this similar foodstuff store that sold them along with other imported items such as S&W fruit cake mix and another famous Danish product called Cherry Heering.