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To Make Salt Butter Fresh

This recipe describes how to churn fresh butter from salt butter and milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 81,283 recipes. Both carry (z)-4-heptenal, which smells biscuit, cream. The science ↓

To Make Salt Butter Fresh

Ingredients

Directions

Churn

  1. Place the salt butter in a churn.

  2. Add the new milk and a little annatto.

  3. Churn the mixture together for about an hour.

Wash and finish

  1. Remove the butter and wash it in water.

  2. Add the customary quantity of ingredients as you would for fresh butter.

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 + milktop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together81,283 recipes

    Shared aroma: (z)-4-heptenal (biscuit, cream).

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

What each ingredient does

Salt butter
Supplies fat and richness, and gives the finished butter its flavour and texture.
New milk
Provides the cream whose fat clumps together during churning to form the butter.

The step that matters

Churn the mixture together for about an hour. Continuous agitation ruptures the fat globule membranes so the fat clumps into butter and separates from the liquid buttermilk. Stopping too early leaves the butter soft and unformed.

“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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