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Malted Butter

A butter and malt mixture that can be spread after adding water and salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and malt work together. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 93 recipes. Both carry 2,3-pentanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Malted Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the butter and malt thoroughly.

  2. When ready to use, add water until the mixture is spreadable.

  3. Add a little salt to taste if desired.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Butter + malttop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together93 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-pentanedione (butter, sweet).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Butter
Provides fat that gives the spread its richness and smooth, creamy texture.
Malt
Adds a toasty, slightly sweet flavour that gives the butter its distinctive taste.

“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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