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Washing Butter

If preparing butter for long-term storage, ensure all milk residues are removed to prevent spoilage.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Place the butter in a bowl of cool water.

  2. Work the butter back and forth with your hands or two broad pieces of wood.

  3. Change the water until it runs clear.

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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