Re: [pct-l] Re: Getting enough calories

Hi Katt,

Your post brought back great memories...

I've never liked tea but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to have 
(Tibetan) yak butter in black tea when I was trekking in Nepal.  Where I had 
it, they didn't stir the butter into the tea, rather they actually churned 
the tea and the butter together.  Given that I don't like tea, I did not 
enjoy the beverage but I didn't find it particularly more vile than just 
plain tea.

I've never heard of the yak butter called ghee before (though I don't know 
the Tibetan name).  Ghee, to me, has always been the yummy clarified butter 
mostly used in Indian (likely related?) cooking.  As a matter of fact, I 
think clarifies butter is even be more resistant to rancidity than butter.  
Can you confirm?  Could be better (although more expensive) to carry 
clarified butter through the warmer desert areas of the PCT.

Of course, who knows the variations you can get between Mongolian, Tibetan, 
Nepalese, and Indian variations on a theme?

Craving Dhal Bat...

Mara
Besi Sihar to Yak Karka, 1997

>From: "Elizabeth A. Foshion" <foshione@dteenergy.com>
>To: pct-l@edina.hack.net
>Subject: [pct-l] Re: Getting enough calories
>Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 09:31:04 -0500
>
>The Mongol's still consume large quantities of ghee - rancid yak butter. It 
>doesn't
>appear to have hurt them.
>
>Note: don't be confused by rendered butters called ghee. The real ghee is 
>stirred
>into a cup of bitter hot tea cooked over a dung fire. I figure the smell of 
>burning
>dung cancels the vile taste of the ghee.
>
>Katt
>
>
> > In case anyone was wondering...
> >
> > Butter does not spoil and requires no refrigeration.  It will, however, 
>go
> > rancid in too much heat.  Chances are Squirrelfight was using it up 
>before
> > rancidity could set in.  I don't think rancidity can hurt you (does 
>anyone
> > know better?).  It just makes it smell and/or taste funny.
> >
> > I carried butter when possible on my AT thruhike but actually had 
>problems
> > finding real butter in some smaller southern towns.  Many general stores
> > only carried margarine.
> >
> > Mara
>
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