Salt Butter Made Fresh
Ingredients
Directions
Wash the butter
Place the salt butter in a clean wooden bowl.
Add the quart of water and mix well with your hand or a wooden spoon for 20 minutes.
Pour off the water and wash the butter in 7 or 8 different waters.
Shape
Add a pinch of fine salt and shape the butter into pats.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Salt butter
- Provides the fat and flavour that the dish is built around.
The step that matters
Washing the butter in several changes of water. Butter is washed to remove the buttermilk and salty brine it holds, which can turn sour and spoil its flavour. Repeated changes of clean water carry away more of these milk solids than a single rinse would.
“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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