Packing Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean a stone pot or jar thoroughly, then wash the pot or jar in cold, strong brine.
Pack
Work the butter well to ensure it is free from buttermilk.
Pack the butter into the prepared pot or jar.
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
- New, sweet butter
- Forms the main body of the preserve, so its freedom from buttermilk determines how well it keeps.
The step that matters
Working the butter free of buttermilk. Buttermilk left in butter contains milk solids and water that can spoil and sour the butter over time. Thorough working presses out the liquid so the butter packs cleanly and keeps better.
“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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