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To Preserve Butter

A method for preserving butter by brining it in a salt solution.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the brine

  1. Make a brine with enough salt to float an egg.

  2. Boil the brine, skim off any impurities, and strain it.

  3. Let the brine cool, then pour it into a clean jar.

Pack the butter

  1. Slice the butter and wrap each slice in clean cloth.

  2. Fill the jar with the wrapped butter and place a weight on top.

  3. Keep the jar covered.

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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What each ingredient does

Coarse sea salt
Forms the brine that preserves the butter by drawing out water and inhibiting spoilage microbes.
Butter
The fat being preserved; its flavour develops as it is kept submerged in the brine.

“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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