BUTTER FROM FISH.
The Indians of British Columbia and Alaska obtain their butter supplv from a fat little fish called the oolichan. Every summer this fish comes up the rivers from the ocean to spawn; and millions are caught in nets cjajly. Tbcv are then ttjrown into rough tubs, made f rci?a tree-logs, in which they . lie exposed to the sun. When thoroughly softened they are taken from the tubs and thrown into *rreat wooden vsts of water, which has been heated by dropI ping red-hot stones into it. As the oil lrom the fish rises to the top it is skimmed off. It hardens quickly, looks like lard, and tastes like butter. The Indians usually make enough of this butter during the summer Lo last throughout the winter.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17566, 17 June 1925, Page 3
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