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Butter Cooler

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Butter Cooler

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour 1 pint of water into a round dish.

  2. Place ½ brick of ice or a stone the size of ½ brick in the water.

  3. Put the plate of butter on top of the ice or stone.

  4. Invert a common flower pot over the butter so it sits in the water.

  5. For better results, cover the pot with a wet cloth.

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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