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To Cream Butter

Softens butter by warming and stirring, optionally rinsing salt with cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Cream Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Warm the butter in a bowl if cold weather; otherwise no warming needed.

  2. Wash the salt from the butter with cold water, if desired.

  3. Use hand for larger quantities or spoon/wooden fork for smaller pieces.

  4. Stir the butter in the bowl until it becomes as soft as cream.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Butter
Its fat softens with gentle warmth and working, giving the creamy texture the dish depends on.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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