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Butter Cooler

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Butter Cooler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 pint of water into a round dish.

  2. Place a brick or half a brick in the water.

  3. Put the plate of butter on top of the brick.

  4. Invert a common flower pot over the butter so it sits in the water.

  5. Cover the pot with a wet cloth to enhance cooling.

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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