To Prevent the Turnip Taste in Butter
Ingredients
Directions
Mix the milk with boiling water in a clean bowl or pan.
Let the mixture stand to separate the cream.
Use this method to make sweet butter from cows fed on turnips.
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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