How the gopis made their butter some 5,000 years ago is still made the same way today in Braj.The butter is actually not made from the cream of milk. The milk is turned into yogurt first. That yogurt is then churned into butter. What comes out of it is butter milk and butter. It is actually proclaimed by health experts that butter made from the cream of the milk contains bad cholesterol, whereas butter made from yogurt contains good cholesterol.
We had an opportunity to taste some of this delicious butter milk, flavoured with crushed roasted cumin seeds and slightly salted and I must say that it was very refreshing and soothing. We also partook of cowherd chapatis, which are made not with a rolling pin but flattened out by hand, therefore thicker and were also very tasty and satisfying.
