A possible alternative to plain butter

Here's an alternative to plain butter; haven't tried it myself except by accident when I nuked a stick of butter too long : - ghee, which is clarified butter. It can be canned, and apparently has a longer shelf life than regular butter, meaning if you opened a jar a lack of refrigeration might not be as bad a problem as with regular butter. Seems better to do it in the smallest jars you can get, like jelly jars, so you don't have as much of a spoilage issue to begin with.