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BITTER WEED BUTTER

by

Dorothy Graham Gast

When I was in 10th grade, my teacher at Tuscaloosa County High school, Mrs. Maxwell was extolling the virtues of fresh churned butter over margarine. I asked Mama if I could take my teacher some butter the next day.

After I put the soft butter into a quart mayonnaise jar in the refrigerator at bedtime, all I had to do was grab the jar as I ran for the school bus. In November there was no possibility of the butter getting soft on the cold bus.

Between homeroom and first period World History I presented her with a brown paper bag with a jar in it.

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All that day I could imagine her buttering biscuits the next morning.

When I got off the bus Mama asked, "Did you get the butter with the bitter weeds?"  I was humiliated.

Mrs. Maxwell never mentioned the butter nor did I.

How do you make bitter butter better? It is better to let bitter butter be.

Comment from member: swc453 Bitter weed butter is better than no butter Its made like any butter ,, just in season when the cows eat bitter weed. That follows the season soon after the wild onion butter season ,,, when you wish you had some bitter weed butter

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